The City of Tucson Department of Transportation and Mobility is now accepting applications for the new Safe Streets Mini Grant Program.
Donor Name: City of Tucson Department of Transportation and Mobility
State: Arizona
City: Tucson
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/29/2024
Size of the Grant: $75,000
Details:
The Safe Streets Mini-Grant Program establishes an inclusive, community-led process to deliver traffic calming improvements to residential neighborhoods across the city, prioritizing under-resourced areas that could not otherwise fund their own traffic calming improvements via the existing Neighborhood Traffic Management Program.
The goal of the program is to offer community members the opportunity to champion projects that reduce residential speeding and improve livability through a competitive selection process for funding and implementation.
What is Traffic Calming?
- Uses physical infrastructure to slow speeds on residential streets.
- Is simple, relatively inexpensive and self-enforcing.
- Typically addresses midblock speeding. For example, speed humps should only be placed at mid-block locations, not at intersections.
- For speed humps to be effective, they must be installed in a series, approximately 260 feet to 500 feet apart.
- Chicanes can be designed as water harvesting features to both manage stormwater and support vegetation. Chicanes function best to harvest water on crested roadways where stormwater is carried along the curb.
- Narrow, curving roads encourage motorists to drive more slowly and carefully
- Improves safety and comfort for people using the street on foot, bike, skating, and other non-motorized activities.
- Traffic circles can be placed on stop-controlled, yield-controlled, or uncontrolled intersections.
- Minimum 20-foot clearance is often provided between the corner and widest point of the traffic circle.
- Traffic circles can incorporate green infrastructure design principles that promote water harvesting, stormwater management, native plant habitat, public art, and contribute to neighborhood beautification.
Funding Information
The City anticipates awarding around $350,000 to neighborhoods the first year of the program. The maximum funding amount per project is $75,000. Once awarded, the project team will work directly with neighbors to design and build traffic calming projects through a collaborative process.
Eligibility Criteria
The City of Tucson Department of Transportation and Mobility (DTM) invites the following individuals and groups within the Tucson City Limits to submit ideas and apply for the mini grant program:
- Neighborhood Groups
- Community-Based Organizations
- Businesses
For more information, visit City of Tucson DTM.
