In conjunction with area wide agencies, Brevard County and the State of Florida, the City of Cape Canaveral shall provide for a safe, convenient and efficient motorized and non-motorized transportation system. The measurement of this Objective is the safety, convenience and efficiency of the City's transportation network and the degree to which the following Policies are implemented.

Policy T-1.1

The City shall continue with development of a program to provide for the regular maintenance and improvement of local streets so as to maximize safe travel for vehicles and pedestrians and reduce loss of life and property by reducing accidents.

Policy T-1.2

The City shall work with the Metropolitan Planning Organization and the Florida Department of Transportation in developing and utilizing level-of-service standards at peak hour on all roadways within the City's jurisdiction. The City hereby adopts level-of-service standard "E" for all roadways in the municipality as the minimum acceptable operating level-of-service (with a desirable level-of-service "C"). As of April 1, 1989 for any roadway operating at an existing level-of-service condition which is below the City's adopted level-of-service standard, and until the roadway is upgraded to a minimum level-of-service "E" or better, the City hereby adopts the following "interim" level-of-service approach: The City commits to maintain that existing level-of-service and to not permit any further significant degradation of that condition: (the cut-off point for indicating significant degradation will be a volume to capacity ratio (V/C ratio)--to be interpreted as a maximum acceptable volume ratio (MAV ratio)--of 1.10: at the point that the City determines that the V/C ratio (MAV ratio) exceeds 1.10, it will trigger a procedure in accordance with the City's concurrency management system to defer, modify or deny development orders or permits which impact the roadway segment in question. In addition, once a substandard roadway is improved to a level-of-service "E" or better, the newly achieved level-of-service will become the new "maintain-and-not-further-degrade" standard. After a substandard roadway has been improved to a level-of-service better than "E", the Comprehensive Plan shall be amended to adopt that improved level-of-service as the standard for said roadway.

Policy T-1.3

The City shall implement its policy of requiring all new developments within the City to prepare a circulation plan that illustrates adequate access to the City circulation system; provides for the adequate design of local street systems; and coordinates with the existing street patterns of the area.

Policy T-1.4

The City shall require dedication or reservation of future rights-of-way for major components of the overall transportation network when development takes place in a previously undeveloped area and when such future rights-of-way traverse or abut the property to be developed. Furthermore, with respect to S.R.-A1A, the City shall take steps to protect and preserve right-of-way to comply with the Maximum Through Lane Standards by using such strategies as building setback requirements, donation/dedication of right-of-way by developers, advance right-of-way acquisition, or enactment of a right-of-way protection ordinance.

Policy T -1.5

The City shall implement its policy of consideration of bicycle and pedestrian ways in the planning of transportation facilities.

Policy T-1.6

At any time that a roadway within the City degrades to a substandard level-of-service condition, the City shall commit to maintain and not permit further significant degradation of operating conditions on said roadway, and it shall also adopt a strategy and timetable to enhance the operating conditions of said roadway.

Policy T-1.7

The City shall control access of driveways and roads to SR-A1A; techniques such as the following will be considered: limiting the issuance of access and connection permits to the minimum necessary to provide safe access; using shared access points; using frontage roads; or locating access points to parcels with frontage along two or more roadways on the roadway of lower functional classification.

Policy T-1.8

The City shall support forms of transportation which are alternatives to individualized vehicle use, such as: pedestrian facilities, bicycle ways, car-pooling, mass transit, etc.

Policy T -1.9

The City shall work with the FDOT in the protection and management of S.R.-A1A.