REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
February 13, 2020
FROM: SCOTT L. MOZIER, PE, Director
Public Works Department
THROUGH: RANDALL W. MORRISON, PE, Assistant Director
Public Works Department, Engineering Division
BY: VIRIDIANA LLANOS, EIT, Engineer II
Public Works Department
SUBJECT
Title
RESOLUTION - Accepting and Adopting the Fresno Trail Network Expansion Feasibility Plan and the Corridor Recommendations Contained Therein
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RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that City Council accept and adopt the Fresno Trail Network Expansion Feasibility Plan (Feasibility Plan) and the recommendations contained therein for prioritizing segments of the City's adopted Active Transportation Plan (ATP).
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Feasibility Plan builds upon the City's efforts to develop the Class I bikeway (multi-purpose trails) network proposed in the adopted 2017 ATP by recommending priority trail segments to be funded as funding becomes available. The Feasibility Plan analyzes all planned but currently unfunded trails and selects five corridors, roughly totaling five miles in length as funding priorities based upon criteria adopted by Council in conjunction with the 2017 ATP. Once funding is available, the City will move forward with each of the prioritized segments, which will include the design, acquisition of required public easements, and construction. These priority trail corridors contained in the Feasibility Plan are in addition to currently funded projects such as the Midtown Trail. The recommended priority listing of corridors for future funding are as follows:
* Corridor A: Herndon Canal from Hughes Avenue to Fruit Avenue
* Corridor B: Kearney Boulevard from West Avenue to Fresno Street
* Corridor C: Merced Street from Thorne Avenue to B Street, Thorne avenue from Merced Street
to California Avenue
* Corridor D: California/Walnut to Hinton Park
* Corridor E: Church and Jensen from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to Elm Avenue
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