The Revitalizing Main Streets (RMS) grant program enhances active transportation safety and strengthens the connection of people to main streets and central economic hubs.
Donor Name: Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT)
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/18/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The program encourages physical activity and enhances local economic vitality in towns and cities across Colorado through funding infrastructure improvements to make walking and biking easy, yielding long-term benefits that bolster community connections.
The goals of this grant opportunity include:
- Encourage active transportation and healthy lifestyles through improvements to the vitality of downtowns, mixed-use centers, and community gathering spaces;
- Support economic development and increase opportunities for businesses to thrive;
- Imagine innovative, community connecting uses of public spaces;
- Support community access to the right of way that safely accommodates all modes of travel; and
- Provide safe access to opportunity and mobility for residents of all ages, incomes and abilities, including vulnerable users.
Funding Information
- Maximum CDOT grant award per project: $250,000.
- Minimum CDOT grant award per project: $10,000.
The funds can be used for active transportation infrastructure improvement projects that meet the aim of the program and are ‘shovel ready’, therefore can be completed within a 12 month period from grant contract execution, if approved.
Eligible Expenses
Expenses eligible for grant funds include, but are not limited to, construction & materials costs for building new or long-term improvements of the following:
- Sidewalks and/or bike lanes
- Pedestrian improvements to road intersections
- Landscaping buffers
- Activating or building a downtown plaza
- Multimodal amenities such as pedestrian level lighting, benches, trash bins, restrooms, bike racks and bus stop shelters
- Traffic calming public art features
Expenses that are exempt from award, if awarded:
- Planning, design, engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, and professional surveying expenses.
- Work completed prior to CDOT contract execution is not eligible nor can it count toward the minimum 10% match.
- Volunteer time.
Criteria
Applicants must be one of the following:
- Local Governments
- Business Improvement Districts
- Council of Governments, on behalf of a local jurisdiction and with proof of support from that local jurisdiction
- University or College
Projects must be located in the state of Colorado. On-CDOT system and off-CDOT system projects are eligible.
For more information, visit CDOT.
