Make Sure VHC's new Behavioral Health Facility is Accessible without a Car
Level of Effort: 5 minutes, at home, in your PJs
Deadline: Thu 4/30 11:59pm

Virginia Hospital Center has proposed a new Health Wellness & Behavioral Health Facility on Carlin Springs Road.  This excellent new facility needs to do its part to support non-car travel, or it will cause further congestion on an already car-heavy corridor.  Specifically:

  • Improve the sub-standard sidewalk along Carlin Springs Road along the project's frontage.
  • Build an excellent bus stop at the Carlin Springs Road & 6th Rd S intersection with seating, a good shelter, and real-time bus arrival information.
  • Build the well-lit, kid-friendly trail through the site that is called for in the County's Master Transportation Plan, not expect kids to ride with car traffic and parking vehicles on the facilities "loop road". The trail is a critical link in enabling non-car travel along the corridor.
  • Include secure, indoor bike parking for facility staff who wish to bike commute, in addition to the outdoor visitor bike parking that is proposed.
  • Eliminate or move the proposed surface parking for the facility to the underground garage.  Surface parking is not appropriate on this environmentally sensitive site.
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The project needs to do its part to transform Carlin Springs Road into a corridor where non-driving options are viable by:
- upgrading the Carlin Springs Road sidewalk in the project area - 6' wide sidewalk with a full 6' wide landscape zone
- including secure, covered, indoor bike parking for facility staff who wish to bike commute.
- not building surface parking in such a sensitive area
- building a well-lit, kid-safe trail as called for in the MTP. Not expecting bikes to share the loop road.

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