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City wins funding to advance Lower Sycamore Creek flood mitigation and habitat restoration design
Summary
Creeks staff said they received just over $2 million from the State Coastal Conservancy to advance 60% designs for channel and bridge work, study habitat restoration options and begin community outreach; staff emphasized trade-offs such as removing parking to expand the channel.
Erin Markey, the city's creeks division manager, updated the committee on the Lower Sycamore Creek flood mitigation and habitat restoration project and reported a recent grant award to move designs and permitting work forward.
"We were just awarded in February a little over $2,000,000 from the State Coastal Conservancy to really dig into this a lot further," Markey said, describing the funding's purpose: advancing 60% designs for the channel and bridges, completing technical studies needed for CEQA and permitting, and making the project more competitive…
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