What Some Locals Want in a “Complete Street.” (Hint: More Lights, Trees and Buried Utilities.)

Speaking of “complete streets” …

For many months now City Hall’s been trying to wrap its head around the Complete Streets concept in the hopes of finishing up a street-design manual and implementation how-to’s by year’s end. Which is why, beginning last fall, Sustainable Development began workshopping Complete Streets all over town, from the far north to Fair Park and points in between, inviting folks to see a few of those, you know, better blocks whilst offering their two cents about what’s needed in their respective parts of town.

Last night a good Friend of Unfair Park sent word: The city has just posted the results of those meet-n-greets — 15 total, each with its own multi-page wrap-up including charts and comments and marked-up aerial-view maps. Such as: In my part of the Great Northwest, folks want more streetlights on Royal Lane between Stemmons and Webb Chapel, its speed limit upped to 40 and more trails … for starters. Meanwhile, along Henderson, folks wants trees, bike racks, trees, lights and trees. One thing everyone seems to want, across the board: “underground utilities.”

Read all the wants and needs here. And while there, bookmark the page: “Conceptual designs for the pilot projects based on the community input received at the city-wide workshops will be posted on this website in March 2012.”