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Transportation Commission approves leases, allocations and extensions; continues Republic Solar negotiations
Summary
At the meeting the commission approved a long‑term airspace lease with Sutter hospitals, continued direct negotiations with Republic Cloverleaf Solar for one more year, and approved multiple SHOP/STIP/CMIA allocations and time extensions, including a $9 million claim payment on I‑405 and a $19.1 million allocation for Doyle Drive phase 1.
The Transportation Commission voted on a slate of items including property leases, project funding allocations, contract authorizations and time extensions.
Notable actions approved by voice vote included a long‑term airspace lease allowing Sutter hospitals to build an underground pedestrian tunnel under U.S. 101 in San Francisco (agenda item 71) and a one‑year continuance of direct negotiations with Republic Cloverleaf Solar to explore solar installations in seven right‑of‑way parcels on U.S. 101 in Santa Clara County (agenda item 72). Michael Van Avery, representing the project applicant, said the developer is having difficulty securing a power purchase agreement and cited an environmental delay tied to a red‑legged frog concern raised by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The commission approved a range of financial allocations and budget actions across the SHOP, STIP and other programs. Staff requested and the commission approved an allocation for 41 SHOP projects totaling $238,273,000 (agenda item 76) and approved allocations for smaller SHOP subprojects and STIP items presented later in the agenda (items 77–86 and 93–99). The commission also approved supplemental funds requests (items 87–91), including a $9,000,000 request to resolve a construction claim on Interstate 405 between I‑90 and I‑10 in Los Angeles County (agenda item 90). David Yale, representing the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said the MTA accepted the claim and requested the commission consider programmatic adjustments to other allocations in future months to address county‑share impacts.
The commission allocated $19,100,000 for a non‑P3 phase of the Doyle Drive project (agenda item 91) and approved multiple STIP time extensions and other project adjustments (items 102–106). Several items were pulled by the department for further review earlier in the meeting and returned to the agenda without substantive changes.
All recorded votes in these items were taken by voice vote with commissioners saying “Aye”; the transcript does not contain detailed roll‑call tallies for those motions.
Below is a list of formal actions recorded in the meeting transcript. Where the mover, seconder or vote tallies were not specified in the transcript, the entry notes that the recorded action was approved by voice vote and that numerical tallies were not specified.
