The City of Tehama is a quiet, rural community with under 430 residents. However, Tehama is impacted by large volumes of through-traffic including high volumes of truck traffic that travel through the heart of the City, causing congestion and safety barriers and disturbing the quaint, rural character of Tehama. Green DOT partnered with the City to develop a Community Transportation Plan to identify improvements for mobility, safety, and traffic calming within Tehama. The Green DOT team facilitated a robust planning process to discern transportation concerns and needs within the community. These results assisted Green DOT in developing priority project profiles to help guide the City in future project implementation. The Final Plan includes policies, detailed project profiles with associated cost estimates, and an Implementation Plan to assist the City in securing future funding.
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Project Description
Green DOT partnered with MERJE Design to create a wayfinding strategy for the Fair Oaks Recreation and Park District. The Fair Oaks Recreation and Parks District covers 9 park facilities in the City of Fair Oaks east of the City of Sacramento. Green DOT compiled a digital GIS sign inventory, mapping every existing sign in the district using the Trimble TerraFlex geolocating inventory and mapping solution. The resulting sign inventory dataset was organized into a web mapping ArcGIS Online application allowing the client to easily access information on existing park signs including the exact location, sign type, mounting type, condition, dimensions, and a photo of each existing sign for each data point on the web map. Additionally, Green DOT completed an existing conditions inventory technical memo as a first step for the redesign and implementation of a streamlined signage plan for the Fair Oaks Recreation and Parks district.
Green DOT Transportation Solutions worked with the County of El Dorado to develop and implement a county-wide Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Plan. Green DOT worked with the County to develop a multi-pronged approach to informing the community about bicycle and pedestrian safety, the benefits of active transportation, and ultimately encouraging and increasing the use of active transportation in the region. Green DOT developed a series of graphics, including messaging graphics to be posted around the community, and targeted-outreach graphics for distribution to schools and through social media. In addition, the Green DOT team organized and facilitated a series of pedestrian and bicycle safety community events, such as bicycle rodeos and traffic safety fairs, including collection of attendance metrics.
Green DOT, under the direction of the County of El Dorado and the Office of Traffic Safety, were successful in partnering with local schools and organizations to design scheduled outreach events and training guide videos. Traffic safety examinations were developed to gauge student knowledge prior to and after the training presentation. A huge effort involving graphics and messaging development, training guide development and creation, outreach and coordination with dozens of schools and outreach groups, and more was completed on time within a very 6 month project schedule.
Green DOT had the opportunity to work with the Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria to prepare a Hazard Mitigation Plan for the Tribe, after Green DOT helped secure $150,000 in grant funds to prepare the plan. The Tribe faces physical, technological, and anthropogenic hazards including, but not limited to, severe weather, floods, wildland fires, communication failures, droughts, earthquakes, fishing losses, hazardous material spills, mud landslides, and electric power outages. Adopting a Hazard Mitigation Plan containing an empirical evaluation of these hazards will allow for effective prioritization of mitigation projects to reduce risk and will qualify the Tribe for funding sources available to mitigate these hazards. Having an adopted Hazard Mitigation Plan is a requirement for the Mechoopda Tribe to be eligible for FEMA funding.
The project team conducted a comprehensive stakeholder and community outreach campaign to better understand the threats to the Tribe and its assets, and which mitigation measures the Mechoopda community was in support of. Many community members have been personally affected by wildfire, electrical outages, and pandemic health conditions. The Hazard Mitigation Plan helped to prepare the Tribe and Tribal members for protection, preparation, and resilience against unpredictable natural hazards and disaster events.
Green DOT teamed with Lagomarsino Planning and Management and Hansford Economic Consulting to produce the Placer County Mobility and Infill Acceleration Study (MIAS). The key objective of the Placer County MIAS was the identification of strategies to reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in Placer County, thereby improving air quality and providing other ancillary social benefits, particularly improvements in general community health. These strategies focused on land use interventions (e.g., changes in density or intensity, changes in land use mix or type, changes in spatial organization) and transportation interventions (e.g., enhanced transit services and facilities, improved active transportation facilities). The strategies also accounted for factors that looked to enable, facilitate, or accelerate change (e.g., infrastructure availability, policy support, market incentives). While identification of these strategies addressed the “what” part of the equation, an equally important challenge was to address the “where” part of the equation. To do that, the Green DOT and the MIAS Project Team identified five “Infill Opportunity Areas” in the unincorporated county where intervention strategies and enabling actions could reduce VMT and provide the associated benefits. These five areas, which represented a range of settings and unique challenges and opportunities, are as follows:
- North Auburn – Bell Road
- North Auburn – Luther Road
- Newcastle
- Penryn Parkway
- Granite Bay
The MIAS project evaluated the suitability of various land use and transportation interventions in each of these opportunity areas, as well as actions that might facilitate or accelerate desired outcomes. Based on the findings of these evaluations, the County identified opportunities for planning policies and programs that could apply in the opportunity areas, as well as elsewhere in the unincorporated county. The study resulted with a set of recommendations for consideration in future Countywide General Plan and/or community plan updates.
Green DOT in partnership with the Tehama County Transportation Commission (TCTC) to create a practical secondary access and routing assessment for emergency evacuations in Tehama County. The resulting Tehama County Safety, Secondary Access Community Planning & Evacuation Routing Study will ultimately provide a comprehensive approach to emergency preparedness and evacuation for Tehama County. This process includes identifying existing issues within the transportation network, such as dead-end streets, pinch points, and limited ingress and egress access. The study will also identify improvements to ensure current and planned transportation infrastructure meets the evacuation needs of the county. Green DOT is currently conducting a hazard risk and vulnerability assessment to identify populations that are particularly vulnerable to emergency events and those with limited mobility.
In the process of conducting public outreach, Green DOT is initiating a web-based mapping and hazard mitigation resource center. These deliverables and the draft report will be available to the public to provide information and opportunities for feedback. Additionally, the project team has developed a public survey to collect data and ideas from the residents and visitors of Tehama County concerning evacuation needs and concerns. For a more specific schedule and project updates, refer to the project timeline page at tehamaevac.com.