Metropolitan Kansas City's
Long-Range Transportation Plan

Prairie Creek Greenway, a Platte County Parks & Rec

Goal: Environment

Protect and restore our region's natural resources (land, water, and air) through proactive environmental stewardship

Proactively safeguarding a healthy natural environment is essential to a high quality of life for residents in our region. Our region's growth, built landscape, and transportation system can be planned and designed in a way that protects our high value natural resources, green spaces, water and air, and protects wildlife.

 

 

Strategies

1. Link environmental and transportation planning.

MobilityNatural Resources Inventory
The digital inventory maps valuable natural assets and ecological features in the region to help communities proactively conserve or restore natural resources during development.

2. Implement region's Clean Air Action Plan.

Regional Bikeway SystemReduce emissions
The region's Clean Air Action Plan contains formal commitments from area governments and businesses to voluntarily reduce ozone-forming emissions.

3. Fund and implement the MetroGreen® regional trails and greenways plan.

Linking Our StreetsFund Metrogreen®
This proposed 1,144-mile interconnected system of public and private open spaces, greenways and trails would link seven counties in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Comments

"It seems important to maintain underdeveloped area for wildlife and recreation."

"Water is the second most important environmental issue behind energy / global warming."

"The region has had air quality problems in the past, so we should keep air quality effects in mind with future spending."

"Avoid building over green land or natural resources."

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Performance Factors

  • MetroGreen Network

Challenges

  • Historically, natural resource agencies have not participated formally in the transportation planning process.
  • Staffing availability and capacity. Many agencies have limited staffing capacity making more extensive interagency cooperation challenging.
  • Data availability. At the planning level often specific data or project level information is minimal.
  • Maintaining a balance between environment and transportation system needs