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Vista council approves citywide sidewalk prioritization plan, directs staff to refine scoring
Summary
The Vista City Council unanimously approved a citywide sidewalk prioritization plan that ranks 121 project areas and establishes an objective scoring framework. Councilmembers added criteria and asked staff to refine point weights and return before sending the package back to the consultant.
The Vista City Council voted unanimously to approve a citywide sidewalk prioritization plan that maps 121 project areas and creates a transparent, quantitative method for ranking sidewalk projects.
City traffic engineering staff presented a scoring system that uses eight criteria — including the Vista General Plan(active transportation attractor/generator models), roadway classification, land use, the Citywide Safety Action Plan (CSAP) high-injury network, collision history, equity need and overlap with Safe Routes to School projects — to assign scores up to a maximum of 28 points per project area. The plan identifies a median project length of about 0.8 miles and includes cost estimates for 10 high-priority projects to support future CIP budgeting and grant applications.
The plan also flags projects that are eligible for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding, and staff noted that consultants prepared the initial cost estimates to help with grant packaging. Sam Hassonin, the citytraffic engineering division manager, said the methodology was developed…
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