How to use the Toolkit
The Place Types/Mobility Matrix (below) is intended to direct the toolkit user to design and planning tools applicable to the user’s location and needs. Listed on the Y-axis of the matrix are key Marin place types for which the content of the toolkit has immediate or future applicability. These place types refer to general development patterns and intensity rather than to a specific status of incorporation. The X-axis across the top of the matrix differentiates between different transit mobility types. The transit mobility types were chosen as an organizational element of the matrix as the availability of certain transit services closely correlates with land use intensity levels and therefore potential pedestrian (and bicycle) activity levels. The colors and recommendations are meant to suggest a conceptual intensity of the applicability and effectiveness of tools. The colored fields of the matrix should not be interpreted as a “hard” delineation of applicability but rather as a gradient along the arrow, which indicates a continuous increase in the intensity and extent of the suggested transportation, land use, urban design guidance provided in the various sections of the toolkit. Each jurisdiction or toolkit user may find tools of value to a particular challenge or context, and the hope is that larger and more multi-modal jurisdictions will find more tools valuable to their needs and more value in each of the tools. For example, a jurisdiction such as Point Reyes Station or Sleepy Hollow might consider ways to improve pedestrian and bike connectivity to surrounding and distant activity centers through tools such as pedestrian non-roadway connections. Corte Madera, on the other hand, might consider these same tools in some areas, as well as tools related to access to transit, connectivity across Highway 101, and some parking tools. Much of the TOD-focused tools and parking guidance may be most applicable to San Rafael and Novato, however, these same concepts and tools are useful in the more dense blocks and major local streets of downtowns of a variety of sizes throughout Marin.
Table C-1: Place Types/Mobility Matrix (Click for a larger version)