16 Avenue N.W. has a dual nature as both a major city-wide transportation corridor and as a community Main Street that has successfully nurtured a local commercial core in Montgomery for decades.

The 16 Avenue N.W. corridor from Sarcee Trail to Crowchild Trail requires a coherent planning effort due to the widely variable nature of the corridor today, with differing road classifications, land use, posted speed limits, number of lanes, accommodation of transit and active modes, and levels of planning and construction in recent years. Provision of additional capacity and long-term build-out of the roadway to three core lanes in each direction is expected to fulfill 16 Avenue N.W.’s role as a primary transportation and goods movement corridor, and to support area growth.

The 16 Avenue N.W. Main Street streetscape design project will incorporate what is most important today and in the future about the main street experience with a focus on place making and community building and enhancement.

As there is significant overlap in the two study boundaries and timing for engagement, the two projects are being closely coordinated and aligned.

Between 2014-19 The City worked with the communities along the 16 Avenue N.W. corridor on several projects. Organized by project principle area below are some of the key ideas and concerns we heard during those engagements. We’d like to know if those comments still resonate today.

For each group of ideas please tell us if you agree with the ideas, disagree with the ideas, or if there are items you would modify or change. Share with us how you might change an/some of the items to better agree with them.

Over the next year and a half we will be working with stakeholders and the public to gather feedback to develop design concepts, success criteria and recommended plans for the 16 Avenue N.W. corridor and main street study areas. We will do this in three phases:

• Discover Phase: Discover opportunities, challenges, priorities and success criteria with stakeholders and the public
• Explore Phase: Explore design concepts and evaluation results with stakeholders and the public
• Reveal Phase: Present preferred plans to stakeholders and the public

We are currently in the Explore phase of engagement.

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Please review the benefits/ trade-offs and visual material above to answer the questions below and indicate whether the following design features support the project principle.

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Please review the benefits/ trade-offs and visual material above to answer the questions below and indicate whether the following design features support the project principle.

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Please review the benefits/ trade-offs and visual material above to answer the questions below and indicate whether the following design features support the project principle.

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Please review the benefits/ trade-offs and visual material above to answer the questions below and indicate whether the following design features support the project principle.

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Please review the benefits/ trade-offs and visual material above to answer the questions below and indicate whether the following design features support the project principle.

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Please review the benefits/ trade-offs and visual material above to answer the questions below.

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Please review the benefits/ trade-offs and visual material above to answer the questions below and indicate whether the following design features support the project principle.

View the West, Main Street and East plans below.

Your input, along with additional technical review, will help refine and finalize the recommended plans. The transportation corridor study recommendations will be presented to Council for approval in June/July 2021. The streetscape master plan for the Montgomery Main Street will be presented to Senior City of Calgary Management for approval.

Short-term recommendations will be implemented using existing City programs and budgets. We anticipate implementation to begin in summer 2021 in conjunction with a previously planned paving project.

The medium- and long-term recommended plans are unfunded at this time with no fixed dates for construction. If approved, recommendations from the project will enable changes to 16 Avenue to be prioritized for funding. Medium-term recommendations may be implemented in the next five to ten years, with the long-term recommendations being implemented beyond 20 years.