Since December 2010, the City of Tallahassee has applied various criteria to aid in ranking potential sidewalk-installation projects. In 2014, the City of Tallahassee updated the evaluation criteria used to prioritize sidewalk projects. The City Commission considered the initial draft of the updated prioritization process in September 2014 and established the current criteria used to prioritize sidewalk projects in April 2015. The full agenda item can be found on Board Docs as City of Tallahassee Commission Agenda Item 13.05 in the April 08, 2015 commission meeting. 

Each year the City evaluates new requests based on the approved criteria and adds those requested sidewalks to the Sidewalk Priority List.

The commission approved prioritization process considers multiple criteria to establish the rank of a given sidewalk project. These criteria include roadside safety, safe routes to schools, roadway classification, pedestrian demand, and connectivity. A project is scored based on the individual roadway's unique characteristics and then added to the list based on its final score. The sidewalk list is updated yearly, and new projects are added based on input received from the public.

The Sidewalk Prioritization List is the basis of the City’s Capital Improvement Projects Plan for new sidewalk construction. Once a sidewalk project is moved into the Capital Improvement Projects Plan, the project is removed from the Sidewalk Prioritization List.

Below is an overview of the prioritization process and evaluation criteria: