With the city of Phoenix’s efforts to make certain areas more walkable largely centered on light rail lines, those walkability efforts could extend more into the city’s west side with light rail’s planned line into the West Valley.
Mailén Pankiewicz, a principal planner in the Phoenix Street Transportation Department, presented to a city committee last week, displaying that Phoenix, like many U.S. cities, has been designed with cars, not pedestrians, primarily in mind.
“I hate to say this, but our zoning ordinance continues to be quite outdated for the uses of walkability and maybe less reliance on a vehicle,” Pankiewicz told the Environmental Quality and Sustainability Commission.
