San Pablo Avenue, between Rivers Street and Hilltop Drive, functions as a high-speed arterial. It also serves as the main connection for local trips between northern San Pablo residential neighborhoods, central San Pablo, Hilltop Mall, Contra Costa College and other important destinations. The corridor lacks designated facilities for pedestrians and bicyclists, creating a very challenging environment for walking, bicycling and transit use. Despite these conditions, people walk and bike the corridor every day. Future changes to surrounding land uses will likely generate even more need for walkable, safe and accessible neighborhoods along the corridor. The San Pablo Avenue Complete Streets Study will focus on improving multimodal access, safety and connections along the San Pablo corridor by identifying needs and prioritizing improvements that will facilitate pedestrian, bicycle and transit trips. At the heart of this process is a public outreach effort that will bring together surrounding residents, business owners, partner agencies, and other key stakeholders to ensure that the final plan recommendations are both relevant to, and supported by, the local community. The project team will translate the input into conceptual alternatives easily understood by the public and present them to the community in a second workshop for consideration and discussion. At the third and final community workshop participants will respond to refined alternatives and specific design details helping lead to a final preferred plan for the corridor. The team is equipped to conduct workshops in both Spanish and English as needed.
Approval of this Interagency Agreement #28-843 will provide funding to allow County to conduct trainings, workshops and outreach services to community organizations, residents, stakeholders, city staff and consultants through June 30, 2013.
If this contract is not approved, County will not receive funding to implement improving multimodal access, safety and connections along the San Pablo corridor by identifying needs and prioritizing improvements.