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Recommendation to Approve a Commercial Streets Two-Year Work Program to Improve the Park Street and Webster Street Striping Plans; Improve the On-street Parklet Program; Maintain the Alameda Avenue Street Closure; Resume Pre-COVID Parking Management, Fee Collection, and Enforcement Activities;
Adoption of Resolution Approving Precast Concrete Traffic Control Safety Barricade Standards for Parklets; and
Adoption of Resolution Amending the Capital Budget by Transferring $630,350 in American Rescue Plan Act Project Funds from Capital Improvement Project (CIP) C90300 to Commercial/Slow Streets CIP (C12100) and Increasing Appropriations for the Commercial/Slow Streets CIP (C12100) by $630,350. (Planning, Building and Transportation/Public Works 310C1210)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In May 2020, in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic and the recommendations of the West Alameda Business Association (WABA) and the Downtown Alameda Business Association (DABA), the City Council authorized staff to proceed with a full slate of efforts, called the Commercial Streets program, to support Alameda's businesses through the pandemic, to minimize the health risks to public safety, and to enhance the safety of the business employees, owners, and customers. This program included the restriping of Park Street and Webster Street, permitting on-street "parklets," changing parking management and fee collection to emphasize the use of on-street parking for short term parking, and a citywide permit allowing use of private commercial land to be used for outdoor commercial activities. The City Council authorized these temporary programs to extend through October 2021.
Staff recommends a work plan for the next two years, beginning in November 2021, to support the economic recovery of the business community from the pandemic and equitable, safe, and efficient movement of people, on Alameda's two main commercial streets.
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