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Sebastopol Caltrans Sustainable Transportation Grant – Final Decision

Sebastopol Caltrans Sustainable Transportation Grant – Final Decision

Sebastopol was awareded a Sustainable Transportation Grant from Caltrans a [...]

By pcfritz|2026-06-08T19:21:47+00:00June 6, 2026|Categories: bike lanes, biking, Downtown Development, Pedestrian Safety, Placemaking, Sebastopol, street design, streets, traffic calming, urban design, Urban Vitality, walkable streets|Tags: bikeability, Caltrans, connectivity, human places, Main Street Sebastopol, pedestrian infrastructure, Sebastopol, smalltownurbanism, street design, Sustainable Transportation Planning Grant, traffic calming, traffic safety, urban design, walkability, walkable streets|1 Comment

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

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

Parking Opportunities

Parking Opportunities

It is common to hear how difficult it is to [...]

By pcfritz|2023-12-16T23:19:41+00:00November 11, 2023|Categories: parking, Sebastopol, streets|Tags: parking, Sebastopol, small town, small town urbanism, street design|0 Comments

Parklet Update

Parklet Update

Since November of 2020 Sebastopol has had 3 parklets installed [...]

By pcfritz|2022-03-11T23:02:06+00:00March 11, 2022|Categories: Parklets, Placemaking, Sebastopol, street design, streets, traffic calming, urban design, walkable streets|Tags: Caltrans, human places, Parklets, pedestrian infrastructure, pedestrians, Sebastopol, street design, traffic calming, urban design, walkability|0 Comments

Cycling Copenhagen, Through North American Eyes – A Streetfilms production

Cycling Copenhagen, Through North American Eyes – A Streetfilms production

Came across this video today posted on Walkable West Palm [...]

By pcfritz|2015-10-09T10:37:21+00:00October 9, 2015|Categories: biking|Tags: bikeability, street design|Comments Off

Over-wide streets

I've discussed the issue of lane width several times on [...]

By pcfritz|2015-08-14T12:48:04+00:00August 14, 2015|Categories: Pedestrian Safety, street design, streets|Tags: bikeability, pedestrian safety, Sebastopol, street design, traffic lane width reduction|0 Comments

Parking Requirement Impacts on Small Town Urbanism

Sebastopol, like many other small towns, needs to get a [...]

By pcfritz|2015-07-19T16:34:37+00:00July 19, 2015|Categories: Density, land use, parking, Placemaking, Sebastopol, streets, urban design, Urban Vitality|Tags: Community Character, human places, infill development, land use, Main Street Sebastopol, parking, Placemaking, Sebastopol, small town, street design, urban design, Urban Vitality, walkability|2 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