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Community Development Services, Department of Transportation, recommending the Board consider the following:
1) Authorize the addition of a new project to the 2017 Capital Improvement Program, pending funding approval, as the Francisco Drive Americans with Disabilities Act Improvement Project; and
2) Direct Department of Transportation staff to request $350,000 in Urban Surface Transportation Block Grant Program funding from the El Dorado County Transportation Commission for this new Project.
FUNDING: Urban Surface Transportation Block Grant Program. (100% - Federal Funding)
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DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION
Community Development Services (CDS), Department of Transportation (Transportation), recommending the Board consider the following:
1) Authorize the addition of a new project to the 2017 Capital Improvement Program (CIP), pending funding approval, as the Francisco Drive Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Improvement Project (Project); and
2) Direct Transportation staff to request $350,000 in Urban Surface Transportation Block Grant Program (STBGP) funding from the El Dorado County Transportation Commission for this new Project.
DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
CDS Transportation staff has prepared cost estimates for several Priority Level 1, “Known Routes of Disabled Citizens,” project locations, noted in the ADA Formal Transition Plan for County Maintained Roadways (ADA Transition Plan) which was adopted by the Board on August 29, 2017 (Item 35). Transportation staff evaluated priorities, cost, and location for the best combination of ADA sites to combine into a single CIP project.
The two locations that were found to best meet the criteria are:
· Francisco Drive and Schooner Drive
· Francisco Drive and Kensington Drive
The location of these two ADA sites are within 600 feet of each other, have above average pedestrian traffic volumes, and are adjacent to Lake Forest Elementary School (School) and Windsor Point Park (Park) in El Dorado Hills. As noted i...
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