You may have received the information about the Transportation Master Plan (TMP) Open House Event in your most recent water bill. Your feedback will directly influence the priorities of Cortez roadways and bike paths. Join us on June 25, 2025!
Survey link: https://tinyurl.com/Cortez-TMP
The need for this study:
As Cortez City continues to grow and develop, the need to establish a comprehensive transportation planning document increase. A Transportation Master Plan (TMP) will greatly improve the City’s ability to anticipate growth, maintain existing roadways, and manage development.
Cortez City’s roadway network plan has been established in this TMP to plan for all transportation needs of Cortez’s residents, businesses, and visitors. This TMP is intended to be used as a tool to plan for future transportation capital projects, future development, and future roadway network inventory. This TMP includes planning guidelines for future vehicular, bicycle, heavy truck traffic, and pedestrian use.
The benefits of establishing a TMP include:
Establishing an existing transportation network inventory. This inventory includes roadway classification mapping, average daily traffic (ADT) mapping, existing pavement information, existing vehicular speed and classification data, demographic data, and vehicular crash data.
Improving development and future growth standards by creating guidelines for corridor preservation, standards for access management, and standards for Traffic Impact Studies (TIS).
Improving planning for future roadway capital projects with an emphasis on limiting funding waste and construction delays and properly locating future transportation infrastructure.
Improving planning for funding acquisition.