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Adoption of Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Execute a Cooperative Agreement with the California Department of Transportation to Complete the Project Approval and Environmental Document (PA&ED), Plans, Specifications and Estimate (PS&E) and Right-of-Way (ROW) for the Central Avenue Safety Improvement Project. (Transportation 91815)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The purpose of this report is to seek City Council authorization to execute a Cooperative Agreement (Agreement) between the City of Alameda (City) and the California Department of Transportation ("Caltrans") to complete the Project Approval and Environmental Document (PA&ED), Plans, Specifications and Estimate (PS&E) and Right-of-Way (ROW) project phases of the Central Avenue Safety Improvement Project, which is a Caltrans requirement.
BACKGROUND
The Central Avenue Safety Improvement Project is a plan to improve public safety and reduce motorized vehicle speeding consistent with the City Council's Vision Zero Policy, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the City Council's Climate Action Plan, and to improve mobility on a 1.7 mile segment of Central Avenue consistent with the City Council's Transportation Choices Plan and General Plan Transportation policies.
The City has been working on the proposed plan for over seven years, and staff is working to place the City in a position to begin construction in 2022. The slow pace of the project is partially due to the fact that half of the road segment is a State Highway and that the City is relying on approximately $12 million in Federal and State funding for the project.
The project began in 2013, when the City Council approved a Community-Based Transportation Planning (CBTP) grant application to Caltrans. The City won the $232,000 grant. In February 2016, the City Council approved the design concept for the Central Avenue project between Main Street/Pacific Avenue and Sherm...
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