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Mount Vernon council adopts amendment to 2025–2030 transportation plan after public hearing on Blackburn Road and trail lighting
Summary
Mount Vernon City Council on Wednesday approved Resolution 1067, amending the 2025–2030 Transportation Improvement Program to accelerate Kulshen Trail lighting design into 2025 and to split the long‑planned Blackburn Road Extension into separate planning and design entries.
Mount Vernon City Council on Wednesday approved Resolution 1067, an amendment to the city’s 2025–2030 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) that moves preliminary engineering for Kulshen (Kolschon/Kulshen in materials) Trail Safety Lighting Phase 3 to 2025 and separates the decades‑old Blackburn Road Extension project into a planning project and a later design/right‑of‑way project.
The amendment corrects a federal funding timing error for the trail lighting project and reorganizes the Blackburn Road work so the existing, locally funded planning contract can advance to a 30% preferred‑concept stage while the larger design and construction phases are listed separately for future funding efforts.
City staff said the Kulshen Trail lighting federal award is for 2025, not 2026 as…
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