Safe & Healthy Streets Plan
The Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition is working with the City of Glendale to create a Safe and Healthy Streets Plan, a policy document designed to implement existing policies from current City planning documents including the Bikeway Master Plan, Urban Hikeway Plan, and portions of the Recreation, Circulation, and Open Space & Conservation Elements of the General Plan; as well as recommend new policies to make Glendale a safer and friendlier city for bicyclists and pedestrians.
The Safe and Healthy Streets Plan will serve as the basis for a community outreach effort that will seek to gather support for the implementation of bicycle and pedestrian policies in the City of Glendale. It is the intent of the LACBC and the City to assemble a community-wide group of stakeholders who will not only provide input into the content of the Safe and Healthy Streets Plan, but also serve as citizen advocates for the implementation of the Plan.
Additional items that may also be included in the Safe and Healthy Streets Plan are policies to ensure the revision of the Urban Hikeway Map and the creation of a comprehensive Neighborhood Bikeway Map. The Bikeway Map would start as a map of recommended bikeways throughout the City with the expectation that it would be revised as new bicycle infrastructure is built. The existing Urban Hikeway Map would be revised to include recently built walking destinations in the City. Recommendations may also be included that would one day lead to additional planning documents such as a Street Tree Reforestation Plan and a Pedestrian Master Plan.