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Green Step Cities <br />Attachment H <br />Living & Complete Streets {BP No. 11) (for steps 1, 2, and 3) <br />Create a network of green complete streets that improves city quality of <br />life, public health, and adds value to surrounding properties. <br />Best Practice Actions <br />1. Adopt a complete streets policy, or a living streets policy, which <br />addresses landscaping and stormwater. <br />2. Adopt zoning language or approve a skinny street/development project that <br />follows green street and/or walkable streets principles. <br />3. Modify a street in compliance with the city's complete streets policy. <br />4. Identify, prioritize and remedy complete streets gaps and lack of <br />connectivity/safety within your road network by, for example, adding a bike <br />route/lane, truck route, sidewalk or mid -block alley. <br />5. Identify and remedy street -trail gaps between city streets and off -road <br />trails/bike trails to better facilitate walking and biking. <br />6. Implement traffic calming policy/measures, including lane conversions <br />(road diets), roundabouts, low -speed streets, shared space and depaving, in <br />at least one street redevelopment project. <br />For Step 4 - Optional Metric for Step 4 Recognition <br />Metric # 4: Infrastructure for Biking and Walking <br />Data from their web page. <br />93% of MN adults believe transportation projects should accommodate <br />walkers and bikers, and 72% of MN adults believe in policies supporting <br />sidewalks and bike paths (MN Physical Activity Survey, MN Dept. of <br />Health: 2010). 61 % of Minnesotans who have two or more community <br />features to help them be physically active (sidewalks, parks, trails) <br />report exercising 3 or more days/week, more than the 42% who have <br />fewer community features. (Center for Prevention: 2015) <br />Business Performance in Walkable Shopping Areas (Active Living <br />Research: 2013) examines the economic benefits to businesses in <br />walkable communities, finding that enterprises in walkable shopping <br />