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Los Altos Complete Streets Commission sets 2026 priorities, elevates pedestrian-safety assessment
Summary
The Complete Streets Commission set high, medium and low priorities for its 2026 work plan, elevating a project to identify and fix the top five unsafe streets and directing staff and an ad-hoc subcommittee to produce a pedestrian-conditions assessment for road shoulders and parkways.
The Los Altos Complete Streets Commission at its recent meeting set a prioritized 2026 work plan and directed staff and an ad‑hoc subcommittee to refine schedules and deliverables.
The commission agreed to group projects into three high-, three medium- and three low-priority items, with the top priority described as "identify and fix the top five unsafe streets," an effort the panel said will fold safe‑routes‑to‑school priorities and annual resurfacing decisions into targeted safety work. Chair said the finalized draft will be circulated to commissioners and sent to the City Council for review by Monday.
Why it matters: commissioners repeatedly noted that aligning the commission’s calendar with city staff timelines — for consultant procurements, grant windows and the Pavement Condition Index update — is essential to move projects from “ideation” to planned work. Commissioners flagged two multi-year items as potential impediments to near-term action: the San Antonio Road consultant award (expected August–September) and a radar‑survey timeline that depends on the city’s May budget review.
Commissioners and staff discussed grant competitiveness and scoring. The commission was told grants that award extra points for disadvantaged communities can put Los Altos at a competitive disadvantage because the city is classified as relatively affluent; staff and commissioners said that affects whether and how aggressively the city pursues certain regional grant programs.
City traffic staff outlined near-term technical work the commission can influence, including an intersection geometry study targeted for February–May and a review of the city’s resurfacing priorities using the new PCI report. Traffic manager Steven Sun described the intersection study as supporting an application to a regional transportation grant and said resurfacing prioritization is required every two years to remain eligible for Measure B funds.
Commissioners also revised the wording of one mid‑priority project to clarify scope. The item originally framed as "walking corridor improvements" was relabeled as a proposed assessment: "create a report regarding the current condition of road shoulders and parkways," an analysis meant to identify realistic, lower‑impact options for pedestrian safety short of full sidewalks.
What happens next: an ad‑hoc subcommittee will refine scope, proposed deliverables and timing; staff will coordinate on grant timelines and PCI kickoff meetings with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC). The chair said the commission will share a finalized work‑plan draft with the City Council in the coming week and will update commissioners after a brief internal sync.
The commission approved the minutes from its Jan. 28 meeting earlier in the session and adjourned at 7:41 p.m.
