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Chapter 4 - San Marcos Tomorrow Thoroughfare Plan I Goal 2 - Multi-Modal Transportation Provide a multi-modal transportation system that accommodates automobiles, as well as pedestrians, bicyclists, and public transit. Policy T-2.1: The City will ensure that all roadways are designed as multi-modal facilities that are designed to accommodate motor vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians. Policy T -2.2: The City will balance competing roadway needs, rather than planning exclusively for motor vehicles, and will ensure that City ordinances, such as the zoning and subdivision ordinances, include requirements that will ensure adequate accommodation of all transportation modes. Policy T -2.3: The City will prepare a Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan as part of the Transportation Master Plan. The recommendations will be adopted as an element of the Thoroughfare Plan. I Policy T-2.4: The City will implement a program to encourage the construction of sidewalks in conjunction with the construction or expansion of thoroughfares. Policy T -2.5: The City will require that new developments include sidewalks along both sides of major thoroughfares (unless a system of walkways, or walkways and bikeways, are provided separate from the arterial), collectors, and on all streets with densities over 1 dwelling units per acre and within 2,500 feet of schools. Policy T -2.6: The City will, in general, provide bicycle paths adjacent to arterial streets and bike lanes on collector streets as part of a comprehensive bicycle route system. Recreational trails, where appropriate, will be designed to also serve transportation needs. I Policy T-2.7: The City will require that arterial and collector streets be designed to accommodate buses, including "pull outs", extra right-of-way for bus shelters, or other necessary accommodations. San Marcos Horizons (Draft: September 17, 2004) 4-24