Review & Approvals Process
This section provides an overview of CSS. What it is and how it can help to shape transportation projects around the country. Feel free to browse through the topics below or search for a particular page by entering a keyword in the search box below or clicking on "Advanced Search."
As a consensus-building process, a CSS project can speed up and ease the review and approval processes. Rather than waiting until the end of the project for review and approvals by other state and local agencies, these entities are involved as stakeholders in the process from the very beginning. Identification of community concerns and participation in the process early on, also helps avoid conflict and community opposition at the approvals stage of a project.
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Implementing Zoning Ordinances and Regulations
Discusses how to conduct a "code audit" to determine whether local and state zoning ordinances, development standards, and design standards are barriers or opportunities for CSSD?
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Context Sensitive Street Design
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Question Two: What will stand in our way?
"By identifying [hurdles] up front, you can build time into the project to work through and deal with difficult issues." more...
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Building Projects that Build Communities: Recommended Best Practices
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