The Las Deltas Housing Authority (Housing Authority) is in the process of demolishing all of its residential structures on Market Avenue, Silver Avenue, North Jade Street, Harrold Street, and Warren Drive. The demolition work is expected to be completed early this year. The Housing Authority has a long-term plan to sell or facilitate the construction of affordable housing on the property. However, in the interim, there is concern that having a large vacant parcel in the neighborhood will become an attractive nuisance, leading to urban blight, illegal dumping or the establishment of homeless encampments. The vacant parcels may also attract illegal roadway sideshows, as well as other illicit and criminal activities.
Therefore, Contra Costa County Public Works Department, Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff, and the California Highway Patrol support the Housing Authority’s request to temporarily close portions of Market Avenue and Silver Avenue, as well as all of North Jade Street, Harrold Street, and Warren Drive, and recommends that the Board of Supervisors adopt the resolution temporarily closing the roadways per the Housing Authority’s request.
Additionally, Public Works Department staff has determined that the portions of Market Avenue, Silver Avenue, North Jade Street, Harrold Street, and Warren Drive subject to temporary closure are not designated as through highways or arterial streets. Public Works Department staff have further determined that the closure of the above-described roadways will not impact traffic flow or safety on the adjacent streets or in the surrounding neighborhoods, the operation of emergency vehicles, the performance of municipal or public utility services to, or the delivery of freight by commercial vehicles in the area of those sections of roadway.
Public Works Department staff mailed notice of this hearing to the residents and owners, as shown on the last equalized assessment roll, of property adjacent to the roadway closures.
Staff recommends that the Board of Supervisors adopt the above-described traffic resolution.
The roadways could not be temporarily closed to prevent serious and continual criminal activities along these roadways.