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Traverse City staff seek $1M Safe Streets planning grant; $200,000 local match on table
Summary
City staff asked the commission to authorize a resolution for a Safe Streets and Roads for All planning grant application that would make the city eligible for future implementation grants; commissioners pressed staff on costs, scope and the limits of local control over state-owned roads.
Traverse City officials discussed applying for a federal Safe Streets and Roads for All planning and demonstration grant that would fund a community safety action plan and make the city eligible for later implementation grants.
The request before the commission was to approve a resolution stating the city’s intent to participate in the planning process and to authorize up to $200,000 as a 20% local match should the action plan grant (up to $1 million) be awarded. The city engineer told commissioners the action-plan grant is a two‑phase program: first the safety action plan; later a separate competitive implementation grant, which may be as large as $25 million.
Why it matters: the action plan is a prerequisite for larger federal funding and could enable major projects in Traverse City such as work discussed for Seventh and Fourteenth streets.…
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