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Council approves $200,000 TFCA grant and $20,000 match for East Side Parallel Trail segment 4
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City council authorized a $200,000 Transportation Fund for Clean Air (TFCA) grant and a $20,000 local match to advance the East Side Parallel Trail Segment 4 project, which includes a 40-foot pedestrian bridge and requires final Caltrans permitting and habitat mitigation.
The Half Moon Bay City Council voted Dec. 16 to accept a $200,000 Transportation Fund for Clean Air grant and provide a $20,000 local match to support construction of the East Side Parallel Trail Segment 4 project, a roughly 1,400-foot gap-closing trail segment that requires a 40-foot pedestrian bridge over Roosevelt Watercourse.
Interim city engineer Dale Lita told the council the project has advanced through design and CEQA (an IS/MND), completed required mitigation and a stream-bed agreement with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, and is now awaiting Caltrans review through the Office of Specially Funded Projects. A required independent third-party structural review and additional design reconciliation delayed the Caltrans submittal schedule but were completed and resubmitted.
Lita reported an available fund balance of about $1.0 million for the project, and a current construction estimate in the region of $850,000; the city asked for the grant and match to secure funds in advance of advertising the project once permits are received. Council and staff discussed construction-administration costs, anticipated prefabricated bridge delivery logistics, construction timing (goal to advertise in 2026), and long-term maintenance obligations. Per the updated maintenance agreement with Caltrans, the city will be responsible for maintaining the new bridge, trail surface and landscape areas within the project footprint.
Council approved the TFCA funding agreement with the City-County Association of Governments and the transfer of $20,000 in local match funds by roll-call vote.
Next steps: Staff will continue to pursue final Caltrans approvals, finalize construction administration plans and soft-cost budgeting (testing, geotechnical and biological monitoring), and prepare the project for a 2026 advertisement once permitting is complete.
