Safe Streets for All Action Plan

The City of Santa Barbara is developing a city-wide Safe Streets for All Action Plan (Action Plan). The Action Plan aims to make Santa Barbara’s streets safer by preventing traffic fatalities and serious injuries, and by increasing safe and easy access for all . The Plan will do this by identifying roadway improvements that make it safer and easier for people to move throughout the City.

The Action Plan includes:

• Mapped infrastructure improvements along the City’s Vision Zero High Priority Corridors.  
• Updated Safety Analysis to identify if any changes or additions are needed to the City’s Vision Zero High Priority Corridors.  
• Equity impact assessments of traffic collision data, proposed projects, and strategies for underserved communities.
• Robust community and stakeholder engagement and collaboration.
• Updated policies and processes to improve prioritization of transportation safety.  
• Safety countermeasures to reflect best practices that could be incorporated with pavement maintenance, City capital and/or land development projects.
• Short-, mid- and long-term projects to improve safety.
• Updated Safe Routes to School Maps and additional safety enhancements along the routes. 

The Action Plan will identify roadway improvements that make it safer and easier for people to move throughout the City, especially for our road’s most vulnerable users: pedestrians and bicyclists. 

Chapters:

• Cover Page/Table of Contents
• Chapter 1 - Leadership Commitment and Goal Setting
• Chapter 2 - Planning Structure
• Chapter 3 - Past and Current Approach to Addressing Traffic Safety
• Chapter 4 - Safety Analysis
• Chapter 5 - Engagement and Collaboration
• Chapter 6 - Equity Considerations
• Chapter 7 - Policy and Process Changes
• Chapter 8 - Safe Routes to School
• Chapter 9 - Strategy and Project Selections
• Chapter 10 - Progress and Transparency

Appendices:

• Appendix A - Safe Routes to School Summary
• Appendix B - Citywide Traffic Safety Survey Results
• Appendix C - Priority Street Traffic Safety Survey
• Appendix D - Existing Traffic Safety Policies
• Appendix E - Traffic Safety Countermeasures

Upcoming Meetings: 

When: May 6, 2026 (in-person) 
Where: Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner Gallery, 40 E Anapamu Street
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Past Meetings:

• Watch the April 29, 2026 Virtual Webinar: Safe Street for All Action Plan Meeting
• Watch the October 8, 2025 Virtual Webinar: Safe Streets for All Planning Effort- Use Your Voice for Safer Streets!
  The public was invited to provide input about City-identified priority streets and experiences walking, biking, or driving along these streets.
• October 15 (In Person) at the Main Library, Faulkner Gallery
  
   

Transportation and Circulation Committee

• Meeting recording of April 24, 2025
  • April 24, 2025 - Review of the Safety Analysis and Past and Present Approach to Traffic Safety
• Meeting recording of June 26, 2025
  • June 26, 2025 – Review of Safe Routes to School Survey Results
• Meeting recording of August 28, 2025
  • August 28, 2025 - Review of Traffic Safety Survey Results 

Fire and Police Commission

• Meeting recording of May 22, 2025
  • Item X Safe Streets For All Plan Planning Effort Draft Chapters May 2025.pptx
  • Item X ATT 1 Safe Streets For All Planning Effort Review Draft Chapters.pdf
  • Item X ATT 2 Safe Streets For All Planning Effort Review Draft Chapters.pdf

Neighborhood Advisory Committee

• Item 04 Safe Streets For All Planning Effort Review Draft Chapters.pdf
• Item 4 ATT 1 Safe Streets For All Planning Effort Review Draft Chapters.pdf
• Item 4 ATT 2 Safe Streets For All Planning Effort Review Draft Chapters.pdf

• June 26, 2025 – Review of Safe Routes to School Survey Results
  • Apdx A SRTS Survey Summary.pdf
• August 28, 2025 - Review of Traffic Safety Survey Results 
  • Apdx B Citywide Traffic Safety Survey.pdf
• Apdx C Priority Street Traffic Survey Responses.pdf