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Provides essential guidance on planning, design, construction, funding, and maintenance of trails in California. Details relevant policies, legislation, and successful projects that lend strong support and provide a variety of tools for the planning and implementation of local trails. A comprehensive guide that can be used at all stages of the trail development process, Trail Planning is an important reference for planners, advocates, developers, and managers of trails.
Topics include
Purpose and value of trails
Federal and state policies and regulations authorizing trails: Federal provisions for National Recreation Trails, National Scenic Trails, and National Historic Trails; State legislation, including the California Coastal Act, McAteer-Petris Act, and State Trails Master Plan
Developing Trail Plans: contents of the plan, including mapping and graphics; strategies to gain public consensus; relationships to local general plans, specific plans, redevelopment plans, zoning, and transportation and air quality programs; implementation of trail policies
Building the community: participants, public involvement, and key ingredients of successful partnerships
Legal responsibilities: determining the type of ownership, acquiring land or easements, crafting agreements, and resolving liability issues
Trail design: Understanding basic design principles, identifying users, managing conflicts through design, and incorporating federal and state transportation guidelines and Americans with Disabilities Act standards;
Environmental review: CEQA and NEPA requirements, types of permits, permitting agencies, and environmental conditions affecting trails
Funding: strategies for capturing the full range of opportunities, determining constructions costs, generating revenues directly from the trail, and developing successful grant applications
Trail maintenance: establishing a maintenance program, balancing user needs, assigning responsibilities, and budgeting
Trail Planning has been recognized with awards from the leading California professional planning organizations: Cal-APA Statewide Award of Merit for Focused Issue Planning,APA-CA Northern Section Media Award, and AEP Outstanding Environmental Resources Document for 2010
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About the Author:
Julie Bondurant is a licensed landscape architect and certified planner. She has more than twenty years of experience specializing in trail, bicycle, and pedestrian issues, regional park and open space policy documents, feasibility studies, master plans, and management plans. She is a Senior Park Planner with the East Bay Regional Park District. Ms. Bondurant received her Master's degree in Landscape Architecture from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and a B.A. in History/Art History from the University of California at Irvine. She has served on the San Francisco Bay Trail Project Board of Directors since 1990, and the Bay Area Ridge Trail Council Board of Directors from 1990 1999.
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Laura Thompson is the manager of the San Francisco Bay Trail Project, a nonprofit organization that coordinates the effort to complete a 500-mile continuous shoreline trail around San Francisco Bay. With 300 miles in place, the trail passes through 47 cities and nine counties, connecting communities to each other and to the shoreline. The Bay Trail Project is administered by the Association of Bay Area Governments, the Bay Area's regional planning agency. Ms. Thompson received her Master of Urban Planning and Policy degree from the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Contributing authors are Michelle DeRobertis, Winter King, Joe LaClair, Bill Long, Judith H. Malamut, Jane Elizabeth Mill, Patrick Tornay Miller, Richard Taylor, and Jim Townsend.
Trail Planning is an excellent reference document for even the most experienced trail planner. I found the document to contain more relevant information on trail planning and design than a bookshelf full of various technical and trail advocacy documents...This book is a valuable resource for planners in California as well as the United States as it has relevant suggestions and technical aspects that can be applied in various locations. This book can help volunteers, politicians, community activists, property owners and professionals through the current obstacle course of trail planning. --California Planner, May/June 2010
Trail Planning for California Communities offers planners, advocates, developers, and trail managers a comprehensive approach for transforming their vision into reality. Based on the premise that successful trail development depends on community involvement throughout the life of the project, the book also assumes that every component of design, construction, maintenance, and funding must be considered during the early stages of the process and reassessed as the project moves from planning to implementation. While the book is essential for those working on Golden Sate projects, the sheer level of detail and the comprehensive coverage of every trail issue makes this a valuable resource nationwide. --American Trails, Spring 2010
Trail Planning for California Communities offers planners, advocates, developers, and trail managers a comprehensive approach for transforming their vision into reality. Based on the premise that successful trail development depends on community involvement throughout the life of the project, the book also assumes that every component of design, construction, maintenance, and funding must be considered during the early stages of the process and reassessed as the project moves from planning to implementation. While the book is essential for those working on Golden Sate projects, the sheer level of detail and the comprehensive coverage of every trail issue makes this a valuable resource nationwide. --American Trails, Spring 2010
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- PublisherSolano Press Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0923956816
- ISBN 13 9780923956813
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages429
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