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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2019-01-16 | 13 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 6:30 PM 4-C Gail Payne, Senior Transportation Coordinator, City of Alameda Update on the Clement Avenue Project Chair Elizabeth Kenny: For agenda item 4C, we have Gail Payne, Senior Transportation Coordinator with the City of Alameda, is going to give an update on the Clement Avenue Project. And I believe this came out of a suggestion from Commissioner Aghapekian who unfortunately is not here tonight but he was wondering, he had made some comments about the lack of sidewalks along Clement Avenue and the safety hazard that that presented. And so I believe that's part of why we asked you to comment specifically about what's going on with Clement Avenue. Gail Payne: Great. So Clement Avenue. The good news is we do have a funded project. We received a competitive grant, federal funding, I guess that was back in maybe 2017. And we're just now got the consultant hired to work on that and that is Clement Avenue between Grand and Broadway. And what we're looking at, the main components of this project are indeed, making the sidewalks accessible. There's some sidewalks, there's a couple of portions where they don't even have some sidewalks along Clement Avenue. Clement Avenue is the Northern Waterfront, it's a former industrial site, so it has that industrial feel. It really wasn't built as thoroughly to accommodate people walking as other parts of our island. So we're going back and retrofitting and doing a better job. There's other parts of the street where one sidewalk is only 18 inches and that's actually by Walnut there. And then there's a lot of different spots where there's utility poles that are in the way and so that's just the sidewalk part. Gail Payne: And so how we're going to get around that is going to be tricky. And some ideas are maybe to have the sidewalk go into the street because we can't move the utility poles and so some parking loss could occur from that. And to widen the 18-inch sidewalk. It depends, it's a case-by- case issue. There's also some issues with curb ramps and some slopes on the sidewalk. So it's going to take some work. The other, the end-street part is we're trying to put a bike-way in and then take out or mitigate the railroad tracks that are in the middle. Again, it's an old industrial street and SO we don't want those railroad tracks to be a hazard. And right now, they've been paved over but they come up and get slippery for people and so we need to figure that out. And so that's the main scope of the project. We have a $5 million federal grant to figure it out and with our local money is attached, it's about $6 million. So we are starting that effort, hope to have outreach in the spring and summer with some decisions in the fall and construction could even happen in next year if all goes smoothly. Federal funds do take a little bit more time so fingers crossed. Chair Elizabeth Kenny: I know that there's a big development project going on over there or slated to go on. Gail Payne: Yeah, so that is west of the study site, that's Del Monte. Is that what you're thinking of? Chair Elizabeth Kenny: No, I thought like Marina Shores is going in right there. Gail Payne: Oh, yes. Oh, that one. There's an Alameda Marina. We're going to be working with them on what improvements that development will fund and what project development components we will fund. So absolutely, we're working with them and they've consolidated some of their 03/13/19 Page 13 of 16 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2019-01-16.pdf |