§ 25-361. Future transportation plan.

(a)

[ Generally. ] Recommendations for the future fall into four (4) main categories: Roads, mass transit, pedestrian, and bikeways. These modes are shown upon maps and analyzed in tables, said maps and tables available from electronic records that are accessible only from the Planning Department of the Parish of Jefferson as the official roadway, transit, pedestrian, and bicycle mode maps and associated mode tables of the future transportation plan. These maps and tables are hereby made a part of this chapter, and all of these maps and tables including legends, notations, references, and other information set forth therein shall form a part of this chapter as if all the matter and information set forth therein were fully described and copied herein, said maps initially designated as map Figures 1 through 5, dated May 30, 2003, and text Figures 6-4 through 6-7 of Ordinance No. 21939 adopted August 6, 2003, and as amended thereafter; and said tables initially designated as Tables 6-2 through 6-9 of Ordinance No. 21939 adopted August 6, 2003, and as amended thereafter.

Primary assumptions in reviewing this transportation plan include:

•  Timeline - the development of the transportation system assumes a link between changes in land uses and land development and transportation system development;

•  Facility locations - in some instances, the exact site of a proposed road, transit facility and bike path in undeveloped areas may be unknown. The locations shown on the transportation maps provide a guide to the generalized location based on the preferred land use scenario map and projected changes in residential, commercial or industrial land use. For each of these types of facility, a separate analysis, which would come during the implementation portion of comprehensive plan, would resolve the location issues;

•  Facility designs and amenities - the recommendations shown in the plan identify a basic level of design or amenity that would be expected as part of final construction. These should serve as a guide and input to the location analysis described above as it may have an impact on site size and acreage/right-of-way requirements;

•  Costs - where possible, cost information has been provided for the improvements based on existing/previous plans. This information should serve as a rule of thumb estimate to the cost required for construction and development. Where available operations and maintenance cost information has been provided as well in the RPC Regional Comprehensive Plan Land Use and Transportation Element, Jefferson Parish, Appendix H, January 2003;

•  Impacts of planned and programmed improvements - the community identified and committed to construction of many new roadway improvements that will enhance access and continue the framework established during the parish's evolution from an agricultural area to a collection of small towns and suburban communities to urban center. These projects will address several of the existing problem areas identified by the community in this process and close some known gaps in the transportation system;

•  Plan amendments - plans are, by design, guides to future development. Realizing that the future depicted in the future land use plan may change as a result of external factors beyond the control of the parish, it is expected that changes in the transportation plan may need to be made as well.

(Ord. No. 22199, § 5, 5-12-04; Ord. No. 22933 , § III, 12-13-06)

Editor's note

See editor's note to § 25-343.