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TRANSPORTATION, WATER & INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE

Meeting Date:	02/08/2021
Subject: Letter of Support for West Contra Costa Transportation Advisory Committee's Grant Application for the Richmond Pkwy Regional Multimodal Mobility Study
Submitted For:	TRANSPORTATION, WATER & INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE
Department:	Conservation & Development
Referral No.:	15
Referral Name:	Freight transportation issues
Presenter:	Robert Sarmiento, DCD	Contact:	Robert Sarmiento (925)674-7822

Information

Referral History:

N/A

Referral Update:

The West Contra Costa Transportation Advisory Committee (WCCTAC) will be submitting an application for the Richmond Parkway Regional Multimodal Mobility Study to the Caltrans Sustainable Communities Grant Program. The County, along with the City of Richmond, is a sub-applicant for the grant application. The proposed study will seek to:

understand routing patterns of trucks and identify ways to better accommodate them,
understand and identify methods to address cut-through traffic in the adjacent residential neighborhoods,
review existing and future multimodal mobility needs along Richmond Parkway between I-80 and I-580, including bicycles, pedestrians, and transit, and
make recommendations that improve health, safety, and overall quality of life along the corridor and in the adjacent residential neighborhoods.

The study will address a long-standing issue of cut-through traffic, particularly trucks accessing the nearby industrial uses, in the North Richmond community. It will analyze the overall transportation impacts from new and potential industrial and residential development nearby to ensure that they will not disproportionally affect North Richmond. The study will review opportunities to improve bicycle and pedestrian facilities (including the San Francisco Bay Trail) and transit in North Richmond, which were identified as a priority by North Richmond residents in recent Envision Contra Costa 2040 community meetings.¹

These efforts will help remedy conditions that contribute to North Richmond's designation as a Disadvantaged Community (by CalEPA), Community of Concern (by Metropolitan Transportation Commission [MTC]), and CARE (Community Air Risk Evaluation) hot spot (by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District [BAAQMD]). The study proposes significant community outreach in a variety of formats to engage residents of North Richmond.

WCCTAC staff is seeking a letter of support from the County Board of Supervisors for this grant submittal (Exhibit A).

¹ https://envisioncontracosta2040.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/North_Richmond_Draft_11-9-2020.pdf

Recommendation(s)/Next Step(s):

RECEIVE update, and RECOMMEND that the Board of Supervisors sign a letter of support for the WCCTAC grant submittal for the Richmond Parkway Regional Multimodal Mobility Study to the Caltrans Sustainable Communities Grant Program.

Fiscal Impact (if any):

None. The WCCTAC request is limited to a letter of support, no local matching funds. County staff time participating in the WCCTAC-led study is covered under existing workplans and budgets.

Attachments
Exhibit A - BOS Letter of Support for WCCTAC Study