Pedestrian Master Plan
Sacramento County General Plan
Pedestrian Master Plan
Section titled “Sacramento County General Plan Pedestrian Master Plan”Adopted April 2007
This document is maintained by the Sacramento County Department of Transportation.
Purpose
Section titled “Purpose”The Sacramento County Department of Transportation (SacDOT) began working on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Transition Plan and Pedestrian Master Plan project in April 2002. The main purpose of this project is to improve pedestrian safety and access on public streets within the unincorporated portions of Sacramento County. The goal is to optimize the pedestrian experience, to provide safe and usable pedestrian facilities for all pedestrians, and to assure compliance with all federal, state and local regulations and standards. Since safety concerns and activity centers are situated primarily along Sacramento County thoroughfares, the Pedestrian Master Plan focuses on these heavily traveled corridors as the highest priority for pedestrian improvement projects.
The ADA Transition Plan and the Pedestrian Master Plan are on a parallel schedule, but have separate adoption processes and community advisory committees. The ADA Transition Plan is intended to represent both the legal and functional goals and objectives of the County to make the existing pedestrian facilities within the unincorporated County right-of-way accessible and usable for persons with disabilities. SacDOT is undertaking the Pedestrian Master Plan to enhance walking as a viable transportation choice and to help make Sacramento County a better place to live. The Pedestrian Design Guidelines, as part of the Pedestrian Master Plan, addresses new design standards to make roadways better for all pedestrians. To ensure implementation, SacDOT will incorporate the guidelines into the Roadway Improvement Standards.
The ADA Transition Plan and the Pedestrian Master Plan cover unincorporated Sacramento County. This area is surrounded by incorporated cities to the north, east and south and by the Sacramento River to the west. Most of the developed areas within unincorporated Sacramento County are located within the middle of the County between the City of Sacramento and the cities of Citrus Heights, Folsom and Rancho Cordova. SacDOT has a wide variety of facilities within the public right-of-way. These facilities include streets and roadways, vehicular and pedestrian bridges, underground and above-ground utilities, vehicular and pedestrian signal systems, signage systems, on-street parking facilities, sidewalks with curb ramps at intersections, planting strips and buffers, pedestrian activity areas and unimproved open spaces.
Download
Section titled “Download”Download the Pedestrian Master Plan. This is an archived PDF document.