1.A Eliminate barriers to public participation. Compensate community members for their time and expertise. Engage members of historically underrepresented communities, including communities of color, low-income communities, youth, and people who have a disability. Use a variety of communication and engagement methods that are culturally appropriate for the community. Increase the availability of language services for those who do not speak English as a first language.

1.B Provide best practices and training opportunities for culturally responsive and inclusive engagement, including language services, ADA services, community assessments, and other activities as identified.

1.C Implement changes to planning and project development processes to ensure impacted communities can provide meaningful feedback, be involved in decision making, and influence outcomes.

1.D Incorporate community assessments into regional transportation planning and project prioritization processes.

Create processes and guidelines and implement training for a community assessments process. Document project processes and decision making for future reporting.

Use community assessments to understand the community including demographics, history, and needs.

2.A Support and fund efforts across the region to be compliant with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act minimum requirements by 2050. Track and report progress.

2.B Identify methodologies and enforcement options to ensure ADA transition plans meet all requirements and best practices. Agencies should demonstrate they are making progress towards compliance.

2.C Consider self-evaluations and transition plans for the public rights-of-way living documents. Review and update them regularly. Local agencies should ensure their self-evaluations and transition plans address all requirements included in federal Pedestrian Rights of Way Accessibility Guidelines as adopted by the U.S. Departments of Transportation and Justice.

2.D Maintain publicly accessible fleet and transportation facilities to meet or exceed all ADA requirements. Programs including ride-hailing companies, carshare, and microtransit fleets must include enough accessible vehicles to equitably serve all customers, regardless of mobility device needs.

2.E Provide training, technical assistance, and best practice guidance to expand universal design elements in transportation projects to ensure facilities can be accessed, understood, and used to the greatest extent by all people.

3.A Minimize right-of-way takings, particularly in environmental justice communities. Consider and engage communities on potential right-of-way needs and uses throughout the transportation planning process.

3.B Explore opportunities for long-term residents to benefit from transportation investments, including tools and programs like community benefits agreements, workforce development, and anti-displacement strategies.

4.A Evaluate local area benefits and impacts for environmental justice communities, in addition to corridor travel, when planning transportation projects.

4.B Evaluate and report on program level impacts (Transportation Policy Plan and Transportation Improvement Program) and benefits to environmental justice communities to ensure regional planning processes result in equitable outcomes for the region.

4.C Implement Justice40 considerations for relevant funding programs to ensure at least 40% of the benefits of those investments will be directed to disadvantaged communities as defined by USDOT's Justice40 guidance.

4.D Review and revise, as findings recommend, MnDOT’s process to ensure noise walls and other noise mitigation efforts are equally distributed for the people experiencing noise pollution. Evaluate the noise wall decision process, including how residents and property owners vote on that decision, to ensure all residents experiencing noise impacts are heard and properly protected.

4.E Develop and provide tools, training, and best practices on equitable process development and project development.

4.F Develop an analysis methodology and environmental justice framework to evaluate how projects benefit or harm different communities and demographics.

5.A Complete and implement the Metropolitan Highway Harms Study.