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Our roads are the largest and most pervasive public spaces in our community. As the city updates its standardized street layouts that will guide roadway design, it is essential that they offer numerous configurations that acknowledge and enhance adjacent land uses, not just assumed traffic demand. Too many of our commercial and mixed-use corridors are traffic sewers that discourage strolling, shopping, lingering, outdoor dining, biking, etc. Traffic volume, speed, noise, pollution and safety issues have a huge impact on what can happen beside the road. Traffic engineers must not be allowed to ignore adjacent land uses when they design and revise roadways. To create inviting, livable, healthy places that foster vitality and local prosperity, LA needs updated street standards that prioritize the creation of vibrant roadside communities.