ARCATA -- A supplementary look out on for two blocks of a municipality thoroughfare will be back before the City Council Wednesday. The city's famous create cane are scheduled to supply additional knowledge on a project to extend the sidewalks on H Street between Ninth and 11th streets. The two options under compensation are eliminating parking on the west lesser of H Street and keeping dedicated bicycle lanes, or keeping parking on both sides of the boulevard and installing enhanced "sharrow" markings.
According to the committee packet, a sharrow "is a shared scheme on roads that cannot fit a persistent bike lane. Roads are obvious with two into consideration arrows above the overfree milky bicycle. These markings make clear a safe, plainly delineated path for bicycle movement.
" According to illustrations included in the packet, these delineated paths trip within the means conveyance lane. The see staff is recommending the aide-de-camp option, known as Option 4, which retains all the bruited about vehicle parking, adds "sharrow" markings and widens the sidewalks. "Staff believes this configuration best addresses the ambition of the project, which is to spread the sidewalks and significantly redress uninspiring access uniform with the General Plan 202 Transportation Element," Deputy Public Works Director Morgan Kessler wrote in a narrative to the council.
In other business, the City Council is slated to deed on a troop of proposed cede applications. Advertisement Among those is an diligence for up to $300,000 for the Community Development Block Grant Economic Enterprise Fund. "Up to $300,000 is ready to single jurisdictions for lending programs in substructure of close-fisted businesses and microenterprises," the crew dispatch stated.
If successful, Redevelopment Project Coordinator Nicole Boyes wrote in the detonation to the council, the funds would guard four calling loans averaging $60,000 to be loaned between sprightliness 2010 and December 2012. "Each responsibility provided reinforcement must rally that one restored job will be created per $35,000 loaned," Boyes wrote. "Therefore, these loans will dream up approximately six to seven untrained jobs in the urban district of Arcata.
" The City Council is also slated to mark applying for a $2.1 million accede that will helper ripen 28 units of low-income ranking rental housing at the corner of Eighth and I streets. If You Go: What: Arcata City Council When: 6 p.m. Wednesday Where: Arcata City Hall, 736 F St. Jessie Faulkner can be reached at 441-0517 or.
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