The goal of the project is to improve the transportation system for the entrance to Rehoboth Beach. The solutions considered must balance the competing transportation needs, preserve and protect the environmental resources, and accommodate planned growth in the beach area. Specific objectives are:

Safety

• Improve safety for all travelers, including pedestrians, bicyclists, vehicle drivers, and transit riders.
• Improve accessibility for emergency services.
• Accommodate traffic entering and exiting local businesses in a safe manner.
• Maintain Route 1 as a viable emergency evacuation route.

Mobility/Congestion

• Provide improved travel options for residents of surrounding towns, communities and neighborhoods.
• Accommodate both local and through traffic, providing additional connections between properties and communities.
• Reduce traffic congestion by providing additional capacity, where justified.
• Maintain, don’t increase, traffic through neighborhoods.

Land Use Planning

• Consider future traffic growth due to current and future land development.
• Coordinate transportation improvements with approved land use plans.

Aesthetics

• Enhance visual environment and aesthetics.>
• Develop improvements that are consistent with the character of Rehoboth Beach.

Natural and Historic Environment

• Preserve and protect the integrity of natural and historic resources.

Public Outreach

• Ensure that a comprehensive public outreach effort is undertaken, including public workshops, meetings with community, business and interest groups, newspaper articles, newsletters, a project web site and other appropriate outreach techniques.
• Provide the opportunity for the solicitation, recording and review of public comments at all public workshops and throughout the process.
• Secure stakeholder input, ideas, suggestions, concerns and solutions before developing engineering solutions (Context Sensitive Approach).
• Present comparable information on each alternative under consideration at public workshop