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Caltrans Grant Decisions

Caltrans Grant Decisions

The Caltrans Sustainable Transportation Planning Grant is coming into the [...]

By pcfritz|2026-02-24T20:16:28+00:00February 24, 2026|Categories: Pedestrian Safety, Placemaking, Sebastopol, street design, Strong Towns, Traffic, traffic calming, urban design, Urban Vitality, walkable streets|Tags: bicyclist safety, bikeability, Caltrans, human places, Main Street, Main Street Sebastopol, pedestrian safety, Placemaking, Sebastopol, smalltownurbanism, street design, traffic safety, transportation, urban design, Urban Vitality, walkable streets|0 Comments

Sustainable Transportation Planning Grant Alternatives

Sustainable Transportation Planning Grant Alternatives

The consultant team working on the Caltrans Sustainable Transportation Planning [...]

By pcfritz|2026-02-05T01:52:16+00:00February 5, 2026|Categories: bike lanes, Downtown Development, Placemaking, Sebastopol, street design, streets, Traffic, traffic calming, urban design, Urban Vitality, walkable streets|Tags: Caltrans, human places, Main Street Sebastopol, Placemaking, Sebastopol, smalltownurbanism, street design, urban design, Urban Vitality, walkability, walkable streets|0 Comments

Congestion, p.s.

I thought of something else I believe is worth pointing [...]

By pcfritz|2025-12-20T01:34:40+00:00December 20, 2025|Categories: Pedestrian Safety, Placemaking, Sebastopol, street design, streets, Strong Towns, Traffic, urban design, Urban Vitality, walkable streets|Tags: human places, Main Street Sebastopol, pedestrian safety, pedestrians, Placemaking, Sebastopol, small town urbanism, smalltownurbanism, urban design, Urban Vitality, walkability, walkable streets|4 Comments

Congestion

People hate traffic. I get it. Who wants to sit [...]

By pcfritz|2025-12-19T01:21:16+00:00December 19, 2025|Categories: Pedestrian Safety, Placemaking, Sebastopol, street design, streets, Traffic, Urban Vitality, walkable streets|Tags: bikeability, Caltrans, congestion, Main Street Sebastopol, Sebastopol, smalltownurbanism, street design, traffic, transportation, urban design, walkability, walkable streets|0 Comments

Pedestrian Infrastructure ‘Improvements’

Pedestrian Infrastructure ‘Improvements’

Downtown Sebastopol is bisected by two Caltrans controlled state highways. [...]

By pcfritz|2020-11-13T19:42:46+00:00November 13, 2020|Categories: pedestrian connections, Pedestrian Safety, Sebastopol, street design, streets, Traffic, walkable streets, walking|Tags: crosswalks, intersection design, pedestrian connectivity, pedestrian improvements, pedestrian infrastructure, pedestrian safety, Sebastopol, traffic, walkability|0 Comments

The Happy City

Just read a great blog post from Mr. Money Mustache. [...]

By pcfritz|2017-02-11T22:19:05+00:00February 11, 2017|Categories: biking, cost of sprawl, land use, Strong Towns, Traffic, urban design, walkable streets, walking, zoning|Tags: land value, road safety, sprawl, traffic, transportation|0 Comments

You Are Traffic

Chuck Marohn of Strong Towns was in Santa Rosa last [...]

By pcfritz|2016-01-24T16:06:55+00:00January 24, 2016|Categories: Sebastopol, Traffic|Tags: Chuck Marohn, Sebastopol, Strong Towns, traffic|0 Comments

Community Character, State Highways and Walkability

One of the topics at our General Plan Advisory Committee [...]

By pcfritz|2015-03-15T18:03:23+00:00March 15, 2015|Categories: pedestrian connections, Placemaking, Sebastopol, street design, Traffic, urban design, walkable streets|Tags: Commercial Nodes, Community Character, connectivity, Gravenstein Highway North, Gravenstein Highway South, human places, human scale, Sebastopol, State Highway, street design, Street Smart Sebastopol, urban design, walkability|0 Comments

Smart School Siting – 4

Today's post will be an update on the Sebastopol Charter [...]

By pcfritz|2014-12-19T15:47:48+00:00December 19, 2014|Categories: land use, pedestrian connections, schools, Sebastopol, Traffic, urban design, zoning|Tags: bikeability, climate change, connectivity, Drive-through windows, Sebastopol Charter School|0 Comments

Traffic Calming

I am a member of the Sebastopol General Plan Advisory [...]

By pcfritz|2014-11-14T14:05:12+00:00November 14, 2014|Categories: Sebastopol, street design, streets, Traffic, Uncategorized, urban design, walkable streets|Tags: human places, pedestrians, Placemaking, raised intersection, street design, traffic calming, urban design, walkability, walkable streets|4 Comments