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Residents and council press for sidewalks near school; staff to return with cost estimates
Summary
Council discussed prioritizing a sidewalk from Medical Lodges to Walnut and other safe-route connections to the high school; a council member said their child "can't walk to school because there is no sidewalk whatsoever from us to Walnut."
Council members raised pedestrian-safety concerns and asked staff for cost estimates to fill sidewalk gaps near the high school and along 23rd Street. "I have a soon to be 6th grader who can't walk to school because there is no sidewalk whatsoever from us to Walnut," Speaker 5 said, urging the council to consider safe routes to school when prioritizing capital funds.
Staff acknowledged the need for right-of-way acquisitions on some stretches and said they would obtain prices and present them in the manager’s report; the council discussed phasing smaller sections over time rather than tackling the whole corridor at once. No formal funding change or vote was recorded; the discussion concluded with staff agreeing to bring back cost estimates.
