STATUS QUO DEVELOPMENT

The streets of the Status Quo Development case study site conform to the dominant arterial, collector, through local, limited local/cul-de-sac street hierarchy common to virtually all new communities in North America. This system of ever more exclusive streets results in the characteristic dendritic, or treelike, form of most new neighbourhoods. The pattern becomes increasingly intricate and fine grained towards the limited local/cul-de-sac "branch" tips. In this pattern at least part of virtually every trip will be on an arterial street. In our case study site there are three types of roads: limited collector with 11.00 metre (36.10 feet) paved roadway within a 20.00 metre (66.00 feet) right-of-way; through local with 8.50 metre (27.90 feet) paved roadway within a 20.00 metre (66.00 feet) right-of-way; limited local with 8.00 metre (26.20 feet) paved roadway within a 16.50 metre (54.10 feet) right-of-way. Overall there are an average of 13.00 metres (42.60 linear feet) of paved road surface per dwelling unit within our case study site.