REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
April 6, 2017
FROM: JENNIFER K. CLARK, AICP, Director
Development and Resource Management Department
BY: DANIEL ZACK, AICP, Assistant Director
Development and Resource Management Department
SUBJECT
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Comments on San Joaquin River Conservancy Eaton Trail Extension Project Draft Environmental Impact Report
1. ***RESOLUTION providing comments on the San Joaquin River Conservancy Eaton Trail Extension Project Draft Environmental Impact Report and recommending the adoption of Alternative 5.
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt a resolution providing comments on the San Joaquin River Conservancy Eaton Trail Extension Project Draft Environmental Impact Report and recommending the adoption of Alternative 5 as it is consistent with the City's 2035 General Plan.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The San Joaquin River Conservancy proposes to extend the existing Lewis S. Eaton Trail by constructing a multipurpose trail extension with ancillary recreation support features. The Eaton Trail would be extended approximately 2.4 miles, from the current end of the trail near the northwestern corner of Woodward Park to Spano Park at Palm and Nees avenues on the west. The proposed trail would be about 22 feet wide, which would include a 12-foot-wide paved surface and a parallel 8-foot-wide hard natural surface for equestrian use.
As proposed, automobile access and a parking lot for 50 vehicles would be constructed at the beginning point of the extension near the northwestern corner of Woodward Park. Vehicle access to the parking lot would only be available by crossing the river into Madera County. Pedestrian and bicycle access would be provided at four locations-Perrin Avenue, Spano Park, and the West Riverview Drive and Churchill Avenue entrances to the Bluff Trail.
The Draft Environmental Impact Report identifies several alternatives, including one which would provide auto access on the Fresno side of the r...
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