Guidelines and Comprehensive Plan Amendments

The City of Deerfield Beach depends on manuals for design guidance on new streets, as well as for retrofitting and modifying existing streets with new development. Along with land use planning, street manuals play a large role in determining urban form. Street manuals, in effect, serve as the “DNA” of streets. As such, they help to determine how walkable and bicycle-friendly neighborhoods and communities are, how conducive cities are to transit use, and how livable communities become.

The Deerfield Beach Complete Streets Guidelines manual is based on complete streets principles that aim to design streets for people of all ages and physical abilities, and to accommodate all travel modes. The Guidelines offer another way to design streets rather than by traditional street manuals. The result will be a City with more livable neighborhoods and with healthier residents, who have increased opportunities for active transportation (walking, bicycling, and accessing public transportation). The Complete Streets Guidelines exemplify many Smart Growth principles.