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 Integrated master plans are how a city manages ongoing infrastructure projects, often among different city departments.
Once a master plan is approved, projects can be coordinated to ensure the goals of the plan are met.
Bicycle Master Plan Goals
 The Riverside Bicycle Master Plan provides a blueprint for bicycle transportation and recreation in the City of Riverside. Starting with the adoption of its first Bicycle Master Plan in 1970, the City of Riverside has added to its cycling amenities. Thirty-six years after this initial plan, bike lanes are present on most major streets, and several bicycle paths serve the community, and the rate of cycling in Riverside is higher than that of surrounding communities. Highlights of the current network include:
- A 9.5-mile bike lane corridor through the center of the city along Magnolia Avenue and Market Street.
- Victoria Avenue, a multi-modal corridor in the south of the city, with bike lanes, a bike path and an equestrian path.
- The Santa Ana River Trail borders the city to the north and provides access to adjacent communities.
2025 General Plan – Circulation and Community Mobility Element Goals
The City of Riverside maintains more than seven hundred fifty miles of surface streets and spans thirty miles of freeway lanes (under the jurisdiction of the State of California). In the past, solutions to traffic congestion focused on building wider streets and improving freeway capacity. This plan focuses on:
- Service improvements such as roadway widening, intersection expansions and new roads.
- Focusing future development near existing transportation corridors.
- Supporting alternative modes of transportation, such as walking, biking and transit, as identified in the pedestrian and bike path network.
- Integrating local transportation planning with regional efforts.
Wastewater Master Plan Goals
The development of a long range Master Plan for the Riverside Water Quality Control Plant (RWQCP) and sewage collection system was crucial in preparing for anticipated growth within the region, changing regulatory requirements, and evolving technologies. Since preparation of the previous Master Plan in 1992 major changes in wastewater collection and treatment regulations have occurred, especially in the areas of air quality, water reclamation, and reuse and biosolids management.
The Master Plan integrates the applicable findings and recommendations of the 1992 Master Plan and results of studies and plans recently or nearly complete. Some of these are the Sewer Collection System Capacity Analysis, Odor Control Master Plan, SCADA Management Plan, Asset Management Plan and analysis of solids handling processes. The work also includes a long range financial plan from both a cost and revenue perspective.
Overall, the Integrated Master Plan’s goal was to identify ways to improve reliability and performance of the RWQCP, increase operational and energy efficiency, and meet increasing influent flows and loads through the expansion and replacement needs of the plant.
Specific goals for the Integrated Master Plan include:
 Develop a wastewater system capital improvement plan (CIP).- Develop an asset management program that will provide capital rehabilitation and replacement schedules and costs.
- Perform financial planning and establish rates to fund operations, maintenance, and the CIP.
- Develop an Environmental Impact Report.
- Identify, analyze, and recommend alternatives for various wastewater treatment system processes.
- Create easily updateable Volumes and Chapters within the Integrated Wastewater Master Plan.
- Use the Master Plan Manager™ (MPM™) software so the city can modify the CIP, financial plan, and rates based on needed changes to the planning criteria (i.e., regulatory and influent flow projection changes).
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