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Hanford staff present East Lacey Boulevard complete‑streets plan, note parking and driveway concerns from businesses
Summary
City engineers presented a two‑part complete‑streets concept for East Lacey Boulevard — an urban core with shared sidewalks and on‑street parking and an easterly gateway with protected bike lanes and medians — and reported extensive public outreach citing access, parking and utility concerns; staff will refine design and pursue NEPA and grant funding.
Frank Centeno, the city’s utilities and engineering director, told the City Council the East Lacey Boulevard project is built around complete‑streets principles intended to improve safety, accessibility and multimodal connections.
“At that meeting, staff committed to conduct public outreach and to report back with the results,” Centeno said, describing design work that splits the corridor into a westerly urban core with shared bike/pedestrian sidewalks and on‑street parking, and an easterly gateway segment with protected bike lanes, raised medians and landscaping infrastructure.
Jacqueline Hart, an associate engineer, summarized staff outreach: two open‑house events with mailed notices, printed surveys and a heat‑map exercise that produced “hundreds of comments.” Hart said the top concerns were…
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