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San Benito County Transit Design Guidelines

San Benito, California

Community Design + Architecture worked with lead consultant Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates to prepare the Transit Design Guidelines for the San Benito County Local Transportation Authority (LTA). Mostly rural, San Benito County is located 40 miles south of San Jose and includes a diverse range of transit environments. LTA’s fixed route bus service in Hollister, the county’s largest urbanized area, serves the city core with its gridded residential streets and main street as well as sprawling suburban residential developments and strip malls at the urban fringe. LTA’s significant paratransit service serves rural parts of the county and the historic, small town environment of San Juan Bautista. LTA’s primary goal for the Transit Design Guidelines was to have a document that helps to effectively communicate to developers, other County agency staff, and the broader public the authority’s requirements for the design of bus stop environments and recommendations for transit-friendly new development.

During the initial stages of the project, CD+A conducted a comprehensive review of transit design guidelines and manuals used around the country and identified “best practices” for the organizational structure and content of the guideline document as well as peer documents that contained pertinent discussions of conditions applicable to the transit environment in San Benito County. CD+A furthermore authored the guideline sections “Designing for Access to Transit” and “Transit Facility Standards”. The section on access to transit focuses on guidelines for the design of transit-friendly streets and transit supportive buildings and development of varying land use types. The transit facility standards provide general and specific guidelines and illustrations with regard to variations in the layout of bus stops and amenities selection based on differences in the context and local conditions encountered in San Benito County.

The San Benito County Transit Design Guidelines were adopted by the LTA board in September of 2010.