The City of Tucson views all transportation improvements as opportunities to foster a vibrant, healthy, equitable, interconnected, accessible, environmentally sustainable, and more livable city where everyone can move about safely, comfortably, and with dignity; and
The City of Tucson's complete streets policy, adopted on February 5, 2019 as Ordinance No. 11621, shall guide the development of a safe, connected, and equitable transportation network that promotes greater health and mobility for people of all ages and abilities including, but not limited to, people walking, biking, using transit, driving, or using wheelchairs or other mobility devices; and
As adopted, the complete streets policy requires that the city establish a complete streets coordinating council (CSCC) to oversee its implementation as a routine and integral part of the city's everyday practices and that it makes every transportation project an opportunity to enhance mobility for people using all modes of transportation.
As a critical accountability measure, the CSCC shall work in collaboration with city staff and a complete streets technical review committee (TRC). The CSCC shall be modeled after the complete streets task force that was convened in 2018 to collaboratively develop this complete streets policy and shall consist of diverse stakeholders.
The CSCC and the TRC are new groups to be established with the express purpose of working together, with staff and with the community, in order to integrate the complete streets policy and approach into routine day-to-day operations within the City of Tucson. It is desired, because of the work they will be doing, that they will be "change agents," working responsibly in innovative, creative, coordinated, inclusive, and effective ways and using best practices in collaborative decision-making to accomplish their mission. The intent is that, by creating a new structure, the CSCC members will be more engaged and invested, and become ambassadors for complete streets; and
The CSCC, TRC, city staff, and community members are intrinsic to the success of the complete streets work and are not intended to operate in isolation. City staff is expected to work closely and collaboratively with the TRC and the CSCC to help navigate policy implementation. The city will engage the CSCC and ensure that their insight, knowledge, and expertise is utilized.
(Ord. No. 11675, § 3, 8-6-19)