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Council sets hearing, accepts right‑of‑way to widen South Main Street corridor
Summary
Manteca council set a public hearing and accepted a grant deed May 6 to allow coordinated widening of South Main Street from south of Atherton to State Route 120, including additional lanes, continuous sidewalks and a traffic signal at Woodward.
The Manteca City Council on May 6 voted 5‑0 to set a public hearing no sooner than four weeks for an area‑of‑benefit engineer's report that would fund coordinated improvements to South Main Street and to accept a grant deed for right‑of‑way needed to widen the corridor.
Council approved a motion to set the public hearing (item C‑6) and later adopted a resolution accepting a grant deed from Kirk R. and Donna Leanne Godey for 1,570 square feet of property needed for right‑of‑way at 1717 South Main Street (item C‑10). Both measures passed by unanimous vote.
Kevin Jorgensen, the city’s director of engineering, told the council the intention is to complete frontage, curb, gutter, sidewalk and road widening for the entire corridor at once rather than piecemeal as individual parcels develop. Once constructed, the corridor would have three lanes in each direction in the project zone, continuous sidewalks and traffic‑signal improvements at the intersection of Main Street and Woodward.
Jorgensen said the city and the first commercial developer in the corridor coordinated with other property owners on the improvements; one property owner had initially declined to participate, which left open the possibility of city funding and subsequent reimbursement. City staff described a reimbursement mechanism by which the city would advance funds and be repaid with inflation adjustments when the affected property develops.
The council also discussed timing. Staff said the companion widening project that will extend improvements toward Woodward is expected to begin by the end of summer; coordinating the projects will reduce overall public‑impact time and avoid conflicting traffic control phases.
Council members praised the proactive approach, noting the corridor’s current congestion and incomplete sidewalks. One council member asked staff to evaluate synchronization of nearby traffic signals to reduce bottlenecks during construction.
Actions recorded that evening include the setting of a public hearing for the area of benefit (C‑6) and formal acceptance of the grant deed for right‑of‑way (C‑10).
