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Pleasant Hill staff outline crosswalk and sidewalk projects, and an updated traffic mitigation fee headed to council
Summary
Public works staff said the city will host an SS4A public workshop Feb. 17, has awarded PS&E work for four RRFB crosswalks (including two on Pleasant Hill Road), is pursuing a TDA grant to complete a Taylor Boulevard sidewalk gap, and will take an updated traffic mitigation fee study to council on Feb. 23.
City public works staff updated the Traffic Safety Commission on Feb. 3 about several near-term projects and a planned fee update.
Leticia Gagliozzi, senior engineer, said the SS4A outreach includes an interactive map and a Zoom public workshop scheduled for Feb. 17 from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. She said the consultant will collect public submissions through April and will host stakeholder meetings and outreach events.
Gagliozzi said the city awarded a contract to DKS to prepare PS&E (plans, specifications and estimates) for four crosswalks with rectangular rapid flashing beacons (RRFBs). Two of the RRFB locations are on Pleasant Hill Road (one at Tigland Road; another at Pleasant Hill Road and Woodcreek Place) and two additional locations were named near Doris and Lucinda and a crosswalk connected to the Contra Costa Canal Trail on Westover Drive.
Public works director Anne James summarized a separate sidewalk effort: the city is pursuing a Transportation Development Act (TDA) grant to fund the Taylor Boulevard sidewalk gap-closure project (the design is 100% complete and staff have submitted grant applications and scheduled a field review).
James and Gagliozzi also told the commission that the city is updating its traffic mitigation fee methodology (the fee has not been updated since 2009). The new calculation uses future CIP projects and estimated growth to determine development mitigation obligations; staff plan to take the updated fee and staff report to the City Council on Feb. 23. Gagliozzi said the proposed fees will increase across many metrics compared with the old methodology.
Staff said they will post the final study and staff report with the council agenda and that grant-application materials and outreach graphics have already been distributed to local school principals and to the consultant's outreach channels.
The commission asked for maps at future meetings to help visualize project locations; staff agreed to provide map materials at a subsequent meeting.
