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Napa Valley Transportation Authority updates Calistoga on countywide active transportation plan; virtual open house Oct. 21
Summary
NVTA staff briefed the Calistoga City Council on a countywide active transportation plan update, outlined local recommendations and next steps, and invited public comment through Oct. 31 with a virtual open house scheduled for Oct. 21.
Patrick Band, associate planner with the Napa Valley Transportation Authority, briefed the Calistoga City Council on Oct. 14 about work to update the countywide active transportation plan, which the authority expects to bring to local councils for adoption in early 2026.
Band said the update replaces a 2016/2019 bicycle and pedestrian plan and incorporates recent state guidance and new facility types, such as Class 4 protected bikeways and daylighting practices at intersections. The effort included a countywide inventory of sidewalks, crosswalks and bicycle facilities and an online interactive map with nearly 200 survey responses, Band said.
For Calistoga specifically, Band said the draft work emphasizes completing sidewalk gaps near “points of interest” such as schools, parks and transit stops, and prioritizing construction of one side of a street first where full sidewalks may be costly or infeasible. He said the plan will include a treatment toolkit describing facility types and design guidance and will identify constrained near-term projects and longer-term visionary projects to guide grant applications.
Band invited the public to a virtual open house on Oct. 21 at 6:30 p.m. (napaatplan.org) and set a public-comment deadline of Oct. 31. The authority expects a draft full plan in January–February and to return the document to local councils for consideration in March–April 2026.
Councilmembers thanked NVTA staff and discussed how the plan could dovetail with local planning updates. Councilmember Gift suggested using the plan work as a prompt to update the city’s circulation element, which has not been changed since 2014. Councilmember Eisenberg and others noted the active transportation committee’s recent revitalization and encouraged continued engagement with that local committee.
No formal action was taken; Band said NVTA will continue stakeholder engagement and refine the draft recommendations before returning to the council for consideration.
Public works staff and NVTA also indicated that the plan will provide a constrained project list with rough cost estimates at the countywide level to help jurisdictions pursue competitive and programmatic grant funding.
