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Council accepts $850,000 HUD grant for 40th Street multimodal project amid business concerns and calls for more study
Summary
The Emeryville City Council voted to authorize the city manager to accept an $850,000 HUD community project funding grant for the 40th Street transit-only lanes and multimodal enhancements project.
The Emeryville City Council voted to authorize the city manager to accept an $850,000 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development community project funding grant for the 40th Street transit-only lanes and multimodal enhancements project. Staff said the $850,000 award is part of a larger financing package for a $32.6 million project and "requires no local matching funds," a staff presentation said. Ryan O'Connell, senior civil engineer, told the council staff has secured roughly $31.9 million in outside grant funding and called the HUD award "a major fiscal win for the for Emeryville." The nut graf: while the council approved acceptance of the HUD grant to close a construction-phase funding…
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