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Exhibit A <br /> <br />COMPLETE STREETS POLICY OF THE CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br /> <br />This Complete Streets Policy was adopted by Resolution No. _________ by the City Council of <br />the City of San Leandro on _______________, 2013. <br /> <br /> <br />VISION <br /> <br />This Complete Streets Policy incorporates the simple and basic concept that streets should be <br />designed and operated to be safe and accessible for all transportation users whether they are <br />pedestrians, bicyclist, transit riders or vehicular motorist regardless of age or ability <br /> <br />A. Complete Streets Principles <br /> <br />1. Complete Streets Serving All Users and Modes. The City of San Leandro expresses its <br />commitment to creating and maintaining Complete Streets that provide safe, comfortable, and <br />convenient travel along and across streets (including streets, roads, highways, bridges, and other <br />portions of the transportation system) through a comprehensive, integrated transportation <br />network that serves all categories of users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, persons with <br />disabilities, motorists, movers of commercial goods, users and operators of public transportation, <br />emergency responders, seniors, children, youth, and families. <br /> <br />2. Context Sensitivity. In planning and implementing street projects, departments and agencies <br />of the City of San Leandro will maintain sensitivity to local conditions in both residential and <br />business districts as well as urban, suburban, and rural areas, and will work with residents, <br />merchants, and other stakeholders to ensure that a strong sense of place ensues. Improvements <br />that will be considered include sidewalks, shared use paths, bicycle lanes, bicycle routes, paved <br />shoulders, street trees and landscaping, planting strips, accessible curb ramps, crosswalks, refuge <br />islands, pedestrian signals, signs, street furniture, bicycle parking facilities, public transportation <br />stops and facilities, transit priority signalization, and other features assisting in the provision of <br />safe travel for all users and those features identified in the City’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Master <br />Plan. <br /> <br />3. Complete Streets Routinely Addressed by All Departments. All relevant departments and <br />agencies of the City of San Leandro will work towards making Complete Streets practices a <br />routine part of everyday operations, approach every relevant project, program, and practice as an <br />opportunity to improve streets and the transportation network for all categories of users, and <br />work in coordination with other departments, agencies, and jurisdictions to maximize <br />opportunities for Complete Streets, connectivity, and cooperation. <br /> <br />4. All Projects and Phases. Complete Streets infrastructure sufficient to enable reasonably safe <br />travel along and across the right of way for each category of users will be incorporated into all <br />planning, funding, design, approval, and implementation processes for any construction, <br />reconstruction, retrofit, maintenance, operations, alteration, or repair of streets (including streets,