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City adopts Active Transportation Plan to guide sidewalks, bike facilities and grant priorities
Summary
The Desert Hot Springs City Council unanimously adopted a new Active Transportation Plan after a consultant presentation highlighting sidewalk inventories, prioritized projects, community outreach, and grant‑ready project sheets intended to improve walking and bicycling safety and connectivity.
The Desert Hot Springs City Council adopted the city’s Active Transportation Plan (ATP) on April 21 following a presentation by CR Associates.
Consultant Andrew Prescott summarized the plan’s goals, outreach and technical findings. The ATP updates the city’s 2016 bicycle and pedestrian guidance and recommends a network of pedestrian route types and bicycle facility classifications (class I–IV), intersection treatments, and programmatic measures. The consultant described a five‑year prioritization process that produced top‑10 priority projects with cost estimates and grant‑ready project sheets to aid implementation and funding applications.
Key takeaways included a citywide sidewalk inventory, collision analysis to identify safety priorities, the proposal to add separated bicycle facilities on high‑speed corridors (including portions of Palm and Pearson), and program recommendations such as Safe Routes to School education and community bike/walk events. Councilmembers noted large sidewalk gaps in older neighborhoods and endorsed using the ATP to guide the streets‑and‑roads subcommittee and future grant applications. The council voted unanimously to adopt the plan.
