Role/jurisdiction: Second major city in the region; city streets only — Pinellas County and FDOT District 7 roads run through the city, so always confirm the maintaining agency per corridor before citing standards #status/verify. Strong complete streets identity (policy 2015, implementation plan 2019). Development review runs through Planning & Development Services and the Development Review Commission (DRC); right-of-way and infrastructure permits through Engineering & Capital Improvements (ECID); day-to-day signs/signals/markings through Public Works’ Stormwater, Pavement & Traffic Operations.
Known starting points (resolved 2026-07-08 unless tagged):
- Complete Streets implementation plan located — May 2019 plan (updates the 2015 plan; council-approved), linked below with policy and appendices.
- Traffic calming program confirmed — criteria and process live on the city’s Neighborhood Improvement page (no standalone handbook PDF), linked below.
- The city has no transportation concurrency; development pays Multimodal Impact Fees under the Pinellas countywide ordinance, and a traffic study is only triggered on four named congested segments (see TIA entry).
- Vision Zero: the city has no standalone city-adopted Vision Zero plan — the operative safety plan is Safe Streets Pinellas (Forward Pinellas, countywide), which St. Petersburg co-developed.
Collect (link each as found; date it)
- TIA/TIS guidelines: no standalone published TIA/TIS manual. The published trigger lives on Permit & Impact Fees: the city has no transportation concurrency requirements; a transportation management plan and possibly a traffic study may be required only if the project generates more than 50 new PM peak-hour trips and sits on a listed congested segment — Gandy Blvd (San Martin Blvd–4th St), 38th Ave N (34th St–49th St), 22nd Ave N (I-275–34th St), 54th Ave S (31st St–34th St). Development also pays Multimodal Impact Fees under the Pinellas County Countywide MIF Ordinance (Schedule A suburban; Schedule B downtown and adjacent; redevelopment credits back to the highest use since 1986). Study scoping/methodology expectations are not published — request from Transportation & Parking Management. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Parking study guidelines / parking code (with section #): LDR (City Code Chapter 16) § 16.40.090 — Parking and Loading, Design Standards (Municode); parking enforcement is § 16.40.100. No standalone parking study guideline is published online — reduction/shared-parking study expectations: request from Planning & Development Services. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Traffic calming program/guidelines: Neighborhood Traffic Calming program — criteria, process, and per-neighborhood traffic plans on Improve Your Neighborhood (traffic calming section). Key mechanics: local or neighborhood-collector streets posted below 35 mph; speeding trigger = 85th percentile more than 8 mph over the posted limit, or over 35 mph (either direction alone qualifies); cut-through trigger = more than 20% of daily volume in a single hour and daily volume over 400 vehicles. Toolbox includes speed humps, speed tables, raised intersections, median islands, and chicanes. Requester must own/rent/reside on the subject street; city evaluates on request. No standalone handbook PDF is published — the web page is the program document. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Complete Streets policy · Vision Zero / Safety Action Plan: Complete Streets program page → Complete Streets Policy, adopted 2015-11-02 (Admin Policy #020400) (PDF) · Complete Streets Implementation Plan, May 2019 (PDF) (+ Appendices) · Neighborhood Greenways Toolbox, Feb 2024 (PDF). Vision Zero: no standalone city plan found online — the operative plan is Safe Streets Pinellas (Action Plan PDF, adopted 2021, zero-by-2045 goal; SS4A-funded update underway), developed with the county and cities including St. Petersburg. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Roadway design standards / standard details: no standalone city engineering design manual or standard-details book found published online
#status/verify— request from Engineering & Capital Improvements. What is public: ECID’s reference documents (Temporary Traffic Control, ROW Permit Guidance, utility submittal requirements) on the ECID directory page, plus LDR Chapter 16 design standards. FDOT Standard Plans govern state roads. (checked 2026-07-08) - Access management standards: no standalone access management manual. Driveway/apron work in the right-of-way requires an ECID ROW permit (see permit entry); driveway, apron, and visibility-triangle standards are in LDR Chapter 16 (Ch. 16 mini-TOC on Municode). FDOT (state roads) and Pinellas County (county roads) control access on their own facilities. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Traffic count requirements (seasonal factors accepted?): the city does not publish its own count database. Use Forward Pinellas Traffic Count Maps — 120+ locations, counted Tue–Thu and seasonally adjusted — and FDOT Florida Traffic Online for state roads. Whether the city requires new counts vs. accepting adjusted program counts in a study is not published — confirm at scoping
#status/verify. (checked 2026-07-08) - Crash/safety dashboard: none published by the city itself. Use the Safe Streets Pinellas High Injury Network dashboard (HIN = ~4% of the network carrying ~60% of fatal/serious-injury crashes; linked from the action plan page). Signal Four Analytics requires an agency login. (checked 2026-07-08)
- GIS / open data portal: St. Petersburg GeoHub (ArcGIS open data) (city’s official portal per GIS Maps) and the Transportation Department Public Viewer on egis.stpete.org — network details, speed limits, and proposed bike/ped infrastructure. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Signal timing procedures & maintaining agency: the city maintains its own signals — unlike smaller Pinellas cities, St. Pete does not contract signal maintenance to the county. Traffic Operations (Public Works Stormwater, Pavement & Traffic Operations) handles signal, sign, and marking maintenance, and the city runs its own Traffic Control Center (FDOT D7 ITS architecture element). No written signal-timing procedures document is published — request from the city. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Development review process & submittal requirements: Development Review Commission — hears site plans, special exceptions, and subdivisions under the LDRs; meets the first Wednesday of each month; a pre-application meeting is required before submittal. Applications and checklists: Planning & Zoning Forms & Applications; building-side review via Building Permits (Construction Services & Permitting). (checked 2026-07-08)
- Permit forms (ROW, driveway): ECID Right-of-Way Use Permit covers driveway/apron and other ROW work — ROW Permit Application (ECID_FORM_PERM_007) (PDF) · ROW Permit Guidance (ECID_REF_PERM_031) (PDF) · Temporary Traffic Control application and the full form set on the ECID directory page. (checked 2026-07-08)
- Example projects (ours & public): ours live in the private vault (see callout below). Public worked examples with traffic studies/concept reports: Transportation Projects (Central Ave and 28th St lane-repurposing studies) and the Downtown St. Pete Mobility Study (with Forward Pinellas and FDOT). (checked 2026-07-08)
Contacts, review-comment history, and institutional notes live in the private vault — never on the public site.
See also: MOC - Agencies · Forward Pinellas · Vision Zero and the HIN (Tampa Bay)