San Diego’s Plan for Implementing A Complete Streets Policy

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Although, the state of California has already adopted a statewide Complete Streets policy (AB1358), barriers to adopting and implementing local Complete Streets policies still exist. In order to ensure that maximal benefits are derived from a this type of policy it is necessary to understand how to overcome barriers, and why local Complete Streets policies are necessary. In the San Diego region, up to one-third of residents in low-income neighborhoods lack access to a car. It is residents like these that may stand to benefit the most from Complete Streets policies—which would reduce the economic burden of health costs, by providing safer avenues for walking and biking.

The June 2012 report–From Policy to Pavement: Implementing Complete Streets in the San Diego Region–produced through collaboration of the Complete Streets taskforce makes the case for Complete Streets policies in the San Diego region and explains how local governments can develop a complete streets policy, implement it, measure its progress.