Project Overview

Growth brings more homes, businesses, farms, and destinations along County roads. This project looks at how driveways, intersections, and road connections are planned and managed, so County roads are safe, efficient, and reliable for everyone who uses them.

The Ontario County Access Management, Complete Streets, and Resiliency Project will create a practical framework to guide how road access is reviewed and approved in the future. The goal is to improve safety, reduce conflicts, and protect the long-term performance of County roads while supporting continued development.

Traffic has increased on many County roads, especially in and around Victor, Farmington, and Canandaigua. New development often adds driveways, intersections, turning lanes, and traffic controls. Without consistent countywide guidance, these changes can sometimes happen in a piecemeal way; leading to congestion, confusion, and higher crash risk.

This project also recognizes that County roads serve many different users including drivers, pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders, agricultural equipment, and horse-and-buggy travel in some areas. Using “complete streets” principles, the project will look at how roads can better support safe and convenient travel for people of all ages and abilities.

Today, Ontario County does not yet have a unified set of countywide policies for access management, complete streets, or roadway resiliency. Through this effort, the County will develop tools and guidance to create a draft official County map and access review standards to better coordinate road access decisions, protect public investment in transportation infrastructure, and improve coordination with utilities, agriculture, emergency services, and other critical community needs.

What This Plan Will Produce

This planning project will create a standards guidebook for the county to manage access management, Complete Streets, and resiliency practices.

The project team will use County GIS data to build basemaps and inventory existing roadway and development conditions to understand land use patterns and infrastructure constraints.

The plan will also include a countywide safety analysis using multiple years of crash data to identify high-risk locations and patterns, especially those affecting vulnerable users such as people walking, biking, and using horse-and-buggy.

Using the data gathered, the team will select a small number of representative corridors and intersections for deeper review, field audits, and concept applications. Intersection recommendations will also be informed by the County’s current roundabout justification guidelines to ensure alignment with local practice.

Finally, the plan will produce a draft County map that can be used to show existing transportation conditions as well as future project implementations. This draft will be further refined in time to come to potentially be adopted as a full official Ontario County map.

Find an interactive map on the Existing Conditions page to mark locations where you experience:

• Access issues ex. Difficult turns, unsafe driveways, or confusing intersections

• Multimodal gaps ex. Missing sidewalks, bike lanes, or unsafe conditions for walking/biking

• Flooding or drainage problems ex. Areas where roads flood or have poor stormwater management
   

Watch a video clip of the Ontario County Planning Director presenting an overview of the scope of this project at the GTC Planning Committee. Video duration is 9 min and 27 seconds.
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Aerial map view of Route 332 in Ontario County, NY

Relevant Past Planning Studies

This project builds on successful corridor and access management efforts already completed in nearby communities such as Victor, Farmington, Gorham, and Phelps. Those plans created practical local templates including corridor overlays and access standards that guide how new development connects to major roads while still allowing flexibility through waiver provisions when justified.

By using these proven approaches, the study will help establish clear expectations and consistent standards for access and site design. This reduces case-by-case negotiation, shortens review times, and gives property owners and developers a more predictable, transparent process. 

Several areas have already completed foundational access management work:

• Town of Gorham: Adopted access management plan amendment and local law with mapped intersection improvements and preferred future signalized intersection locations
   
• Route 332 Access Road Plan (Major Thoroughfare Overlay District/MTOD): Established form-based design standards, sidewalk requirements, and access management provisions for major corridors; requires coordinated multimodal design during redevelopment; identified preferred future signalized intersection locations
   
• Town of Victor: Adopted official map, access management comprehensive plan addendum, and local law establishing spacing/design standards for county roads, including retrofit recommendations.
   
• SR 364/CR 11 Active Transportation Plan: Supporting study for multimodal connectivity recommendations relevant to county road planning
   
• Victor Connectivity and Access Plan: Supported active transportation in the region through a visionary trail network; identified gaps in the transportation network; created concept site access management plans

GTC Transportation Planning Project Information

The Genesee Transportation Council is providing federal planning funds through the 2024-2025 Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP) to help Ontario County develop a plan that aims to evaluate how road access is managed across the county, incorporates Complete Streets concepts and resiliency measures. The project will create a plan to improve safety and road quality by enhancing how access management, active transportation, and resiliency is considered in the county’s planning and engineering efforts.

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