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Streets within the Strip District should reflect a pedestrian scale. This means focusing on moving people rather than just vehicles, slowing vehicles down, having compact and efficient intersections, and making the most of the space devoted to non-motorized modes.

After an era in which transportation investments often overpowered urban areas, there is movement to rebalance community and mobility needs. Complete Streets is a part of that rebalancing. For the Strip District, Complete Streets is important when the street network is taken as a whole.

Improving the nation’s infrastructure continues to remain a top priority for the public sector, but the resources available to pay for the construction and maintenance of facilities are limited. As a result, we must use creative financing strategies such as Value Capture.