Balancing Tourism, Residents, and Business through Smart Mobility
Manitou Springs Transportation and Mobility Plan
Location
Manitou Springs, CO
Date
2020
The Spark
The need to balance the needs of residents, business owners, and visitors while preserving what makes Manitou so unique.
Services
Project Management · Planning Technical Support · Community Engagement · Visual Storytelling
Client
City of Manitou Springs*
*Work completed while with another firm
Tough Lesson
Managing the impact of world-class attractions on local mobility and access
Manitou Springs is a town that everyone wants a piece of. Tourists flock there for Pikes Peak and Cave of the Winds, businesses depend on that traffic, and residents just want to be able to get around their own town. Finding a mobility strategy that works for all three is genuinely hard. I served as second in command on this project, leading the plan making process and helping navigate the competing interests that make Manitou such a complex planning environment. The goal was never to choose winners and losers between tourists, residents, and businesses. It was to find a vision for mobility that honored what makes Manitou worth visiting in the first place.
