During the meeting of the La Porte City Council on Monday, members voted 4 to 3 (with councilmen Roger Galloway, Joe Mrozinske and David Schmitt casting the dissenting votes) to approve the mayor's complete streets program for non-motorized transportation initiatives in the city.
According to Mayor Blair Milo, the program is more of a philosophy encouraging officials to consider non-motorized transportation whenever developing a transportation project. This included looking at shared-use roadways, bike paths alongside streets and various safety aspects to take pedestrian road use into account.
She said such a program would also give the city an edge when competing for federal grant money.
She originally proposed the idea on Dec. 1, 2014.