Alongside partners TYLin and Equitable Cities, Street Plans is finalizing the Village of Palmetto Bay’s Safe Streets Palmetto Bay Action Plan (SS4A). The Plan brings together the Village’s previous active transportation plans, combined with a detailed safety and equity analysis, to provide a roadmap for Complete Streets and the elimination of traffic fatalities and serious injuries. The Plan includes route-focused recommendations for Safe Routes to School, Recreation, Commerce, and Transit within a proposed Complete Streets Network, and puts forth a Village-wide Neighborhood Greenway network to provide traffic-calmed and volume-managed routes along local streets.
Street Plans created the project brand and public engagement plan before kicking off engagement with a public workshop at the end of January, 2025 Since then, the project team executed a series of Handlebar and Walkabout Surveys, three mode-specific mini workshops, and collected survey responses from residents. The team also implemented a pilot project along a High-Injury Network priority segment in October 2025. The project was installed with with the help of two dozen volunteers from the local community, including many students from the adjacent Coral Reef Elementary School. The project delivered protected, painted curb extensions to create a “pinch point,” shortening the crossing distance in front of the elementary school, and helping to slow drivers in front of the school.
The Village’s High-Injury Network includes nine intersections and ten corridor segments, calculated and ranked according to severity scores, and includes minor and severe injury crashes, as well as fatal crashes. The project team discovered that 83% of the Village’s public and private schools fall within .5 miles of the High-Injury Network, with the majority of High-Injury Network intersections and corridor segments adjacent to census tracts with higher populations of minorities and/or car-less households. In addition to bicycle, pedestrian, transit, and traffic-calming facility recommendations, the Action Plan includes concept designs for 10 key projects—6 of which are along the High-Injury Network or other high-crash locations. The Plan also proposes more ambitious policies to bolster capital project recommendations.The project team is currently producing the final draft of the Action Plan with the goal of wrapping it up in the winter of 2026.
