Safer. Better ConnecteD.
2021 Fairbanks North Star Borough
Comprehensive Roads Plan
We want to hear from you! How can we make it easier and safer for you to get around your community?
Survey deadline: October 15, 2021
Drop a pin and share your ideas on better/new road connections, access and other improvements!
Comment map deadline: October 15, 2021
Purpose
To evaluate and update the 1991 Comprehensive Roads Plan in order to improve the current and future road network by creating appropriate and strategic road corridors and access points across the borough.
This process aims to:
Bring together and build from the knowledge of residents, community leaders, transportation experts, and the private sector.
Understand how the borough has and is projected to grow and change, and related challenges and opportunities for a future roads network.
Take advantage of new and improved data on things like permafrost, wetlands, and other topographical features.
Share and document examples of successes and lesson learned from the 1991 Plan and related roads policies.
Download and share the project flyer:
WHAT IS A COMPREHENSIVE ROADS PLAN?
About the Plan
The plan DOES...
- ...provide guidance and plan for future road corridors and land access while facilitating the securing of legal right-of-way (ROW) and physical road development through the land subdivision process.
- ...assign a purpose for a future road corridor through a functional classification that is tied to the FNSB’s subdivision development process.
- ...encourage and support the FNSB and developers working together to develop a road system that protects the health, safety, and well-being of the community.
The plan DOES NOT...
- ...allow the Borough to:
- Acquire or “take” private property.
- Force roads through private property. Corridors in the plan will only be dedicated on private property at the time owners subdivide their land
- ...draw hard, fixed, unchangeable lines on a map – development patterns and other change may call for alternative road corridors in the future – the plan and related actions will respond and adapt to these changes.
- ...act as a barrier to development. Instead, the plan is a tool to increase collaboration, communication and teamwork between FNSB, residents and the developer community.
What has and has not been accomplished from the 1991 Plan?
Review of the 1991 Plan
Who is leading and guiding the process?
Project Team
The Fairbanks North Star Borough is leading the process with assistance from Fairbanks and Anchorage-based contractors, PDC Engineers (lead contractor, mapping and technical expert) and Agnew::Beck Consulting (public involvement lead).
Advisory Steering Committee
An Advisory Steering Committee comprised of residents, Road Service Area Commissioners, transportation experts, developers, surveyors, engineers and public agency representatives are helping to guide the process.
WE NEED YOUR INPUT!
Get Involved
Today...
Sign up for email updates.
Receive no more than six emails, between now and Spring 2022, with important project news.
Tell us what You THink.
Share a comment or question. Email or call FNSB Project Managers and the Public Involvement Team.
Take the 10-Minute Survey.
We want to hear from you! How can we make it easier and safer for you to get around your community?
Open through October 15, 2021.
Add a Comment to the Interactive Comment Map.
What is the comment map? An opportunity for you to share your ideas on:
- Better/new road connections
- Better access
- Other road improvements
Open through October 15, 2021.
Coming soon...
Other opportunities will be posted here!
Schedule
SPRING 2021
Launch and Discover
Convene Steering Committee.
Conduct initial research.
SUMMER 2021
Learn and Listen
Invite public input.
Compile and analyze data.
Develop vision and goals.
Prepare maps.
FALL/WINTER 2021/2022
Draft and Review
Gather community input on vision, goals, strategies, and maps.
Develop draft plan.
SPRING 2022
Finalize and Adopt
Adopt plan.
Resources
Background Documents
Steering Committee Meeting #1 (April 8, 2021)
Virtual Open Houses (July 15, 2021)
Newsletters
More Information
Contact Us
Brittany Smart
Co-Project Manager
FNSB Office of the Mayor
907-328-8027
brittany.smart@fnsb.gov
Kellen Spillman
Co-Project Manager
FNSB Community Planning Department
907-459-1266
kellen.spillman@fnsb.gov
Shelly Wade, AICP
Public Involvement Lead
Agnew:::Beck Consulting
907-242-5326
shelly@agnewbeck.com