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What Is the Urban Street Design Guidelines?
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The Urban Street Design Guidelines (USDG) is the implementation tool for planning and designing Charlotte's streets and for providing viable transportation choices for all Charlotteans. The USDG is intended to create "complete" streets--streets that provide capacity and mobility for motorists, while also being safer and more comfortable for pedestrians, cyclists, and neighborhood residents.
Staff from the Charlotte Department of Transportation and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department are currently updating local ordinances to reflect the adopted Urban Street Design Guidelines policy. Click on the link below to view the various draft ordinance changes and provide comments.
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We can't keep widening our roads, so we have to broaden our thinking.
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Click here for USDG Draft Ordinance Updates
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The USDG are the implementation tool for planning and designing Charlotte's streets and for providing viable transportation choices for all Charlotteans.
City Council adopted the USDG on October 22, 2007. City Council adopted a Policy Summary Document and an Implementation Process Document in addition to the Urban Street Design Guidelines. These two documents will be incorporated into a preamble of the Urban Street Design Guidelines, but are currently available separately.
- USDG Policy Summary Document
- USDG Implementation Process
City Council adopted the USDG in 2007. The key intentions of the USDG are reflected in the USDG Policy Summary Document. The individual USDG chapters are available below. You can receive update notices on this page by clicking on the "Notify Me" button at the top of the page.
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 | Chapter 1: Redefining Charlotte Streets | 811 KB | | Chapter 2: Designing Streets for Multiple Users | 984 KB | | Chapter 3: Applying the Guidelines | 1771 KB | | Chapter 4: Segments | 2248 KB | | Chapter 5: Intersections | 990 KB | | Chapter 6: Glossary | 1187 KB | | Appendix A: Multimodal Level of Service at Signalized Intersections | 27 KB | | Appendix B: Pedestrian and Bicycle Level of Service at Signalized Intersections | 549 KB | | Appendix C: Curb Radii | 140 KB | | USDG Full Document | 5772 KB |
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How is the USDG being applied?
The city applies the USDG design recommendations to capital projects. To date, this includes a total of:
- 8 New Thoroughfares
- 10 Streetscape Projects
- 9 Road Conversions
- 11 Rebuilt Intersections
- 15 Sidewalk Projects
These projects reflect Charlotte's new approach of designing and building streets that improve safety and neighborhood livability, promote transportation choices and create long-lasting value. Click here to see examples and brief descriptions of city projects designed using the USDG.
The USDG is also being applied during the area planning process. The award winning South Corridor Station Area Plans were among the first area plans to apply the USDG to select appropriate street classifications, street intervals and street cross-sections based on planned land uses. Thus far, the USDG recommendations have been included in 12 area plans. (For an example of the USDG's incorporation into an area plan, click here).
How Can I Get More Information About the USDG?
If you would like more information please contact Tracy Newsome at tnewsome@charlottenc.gov.
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