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Comprehensive Plan Transportation Element <br /> POLICY 5 . 3 : The county shall review all access driveways and new roadway <br /> connections associated with redevelopment or new development to ensure safety, <br /> preserve roadway capacity, and ensure compatibility with the long range transportation <br /> plan. <br /> POLICY 5 .4 : The county shall ensure that the installation of all traffic control devices is <br /> consistent with the standards contained in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control <br /> Devices (MUTCD). The MUTCD will be the standard used by the county to determine <br /> the need for traffic control improvements, including signalization. <br /> POLICY 5 . 5 : The county will review on-site traffic flow for all proposed development <br /> projects to ensure that circulation for motorized and non-motorized vehicles and <br /> pedestrians can be accommodated safely. <br /> POLICY 5 . 6 : The county will, through its land development regulations, continue to <br /> require that all development projects provide a sufficient number of parking spaces for <br /> both motorized and non-motorized vehicles. Sufficient will be based upon information <br /> from parking studies regarding demand by use category. The county will periodically <br /> review its off-street parking requirements, identifying minimum spaces per land use <br /> category, delineating space size, providing for shared parking, setting internal circulation <br /> standards, and addressing other parking characteristics . <br /> POLICY 5 . 7 : The county shall require that all developments fronting arterial roadways <br /> provide for frontage/marginal access roads or drives, as appropriate. These marginal <br /> access roads may be parking lot access drives. <br /> POLICY 5 . 8 : The county shall, through its land development regulations, provide for the <br /> use of shared driveway facilities. <br /> OBJECTIVE 6 PEDESTRIAN/BICYCLE SYSTEM <br /> During each five-year period between 2001 to-2825 .and 2030, a minimum of 20 miles of <br /> sidewalk facilities and 10 miles of bicycle facilities will be added to the functionally classified <br /> roadway system. <br /> POLICY 6 . 1 : The county hereby adopts the MPO Bicycle/Pedestrian Plan . <br /> Implementation of the plan in the unincorporated county will occur through the <br /> incorporation of improvements identified in that plan in its TCIP . The plan will be used <br /> as a basis for applying for and programming federal enhancement project funds . Funds <br /> will be used to program improvements such as the construction of new bicycle and <br /> pedestrian lanes and paths, and the retrofit of existing lanes and paths . The <br /> implementation schedule will be determined by the priority ranking of each roadway <br /> segment as contained in the MPO Bicycle/Pedestrian Plan. The following programs shall <br /> also be implemented by the county according to the plan : an off-road facilities program, a <br /> Community Development Department Indian River County 135 <br />