South Santa Cruz 9 Capital Preventive Maintenance Project
3 Documents in Project
Summary
SCH Number
2024121091
Lead Agency
California Department of Transportation, District 5
(DOT)
Document Title
South Santa Cruz 9 Capital Preventive Maintenance Project
Document Type
NOD - Notice of Determination
Received
Posted
4/15/2025
Document Description
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) proposes to preserve 14.668 lane miles of existing Class 3 Flexible Pavement on State Route 9 in Santa Cruz County from the intersection with State Route 1 (Cabrillo Highway) to El Solyo Heights Drive in the community of Felton. The project would use a Capital Preventive Maintenance strategy, including but not limited to dig outs, cold planing followed by placement of Hot Mix Asphalt to avoid decreasing the vertical clearance, upgrading guardrail to Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware standards, repairing or replacing culverts as needed, replacing census stations, replacing sign panels, and upgrading curb ramps to the Americans with Disabilities Act standards where applicable.
In addition, through coordination with the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission, the project includes some pedestrian and bicyclist improvements outlined in the Highway 9/San Lorenzo Valley Complete Streets Corridor Plan and the San Lorenzo Valley Schools Access Study. These elements include Americans with Disabilities Act curb ramp upgrades, new sidewalks, curb extensions at selected crosswalks, remodeling of transit stops, a new crosswalk, upgraded crosswalks using high-visibility striping, modification of traffic signals/phasing, adding a two-left-turn-central-lane between Graham Hill Road and Hihn Street in Felton, striping new bike boxes, restriping existing intersection guidelines, and creating or upgrading pedestrian islands.
The project would require work off the paved roadway, trenching, grading, and other ground disturbance, access roads, temporary construction easements, drainage work/alterations, night work, utility relocation, and tree and vegetation removal. All of the proposed improvements are at spot locations (see Section 1.4.1, Build Alternative). State Route 9 geometric features (horizontal alignment, vertical profile, superelevation, sight distance, and cross slope) would remain unchanged.
Contact Information
Name
Christopher Hamma
Agency Name
California Department of Transportation, District 5
Job Title
Environmental Scientist
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Santa Cruz
Counties
Santa Cruz
Regions
Countywide
Cross Streets
State Route 1 and State Route 9
Zip
95060
Total Acres
73.5
Parcel #
Multiple
State Highways
SR 1, SR 9, SR 17
Railways
Santa Cruz Big Trees & Pacific R
Airports
N/A
Schools
San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District schools
Waterways
San Lorenzo River
Township
T11S
Range
R2W
Section
12
Base
MDBM
Notice of Determination
Approving Agency
Department of Transportation
Approving Agency Role
Lead Agency
Approved On
Determinations
(1) The project will have a significant impact on the environment
Yes
(2a) An Environmental Impact Report was prepared for this project pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
No
(2b) A Mitigated or a Negative Declaration was prepared for this project pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
Yes
(2c) An other document type was prepared for this project pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
No
(3) Mitigated measures were made a condition of the approval of the project
Yes
(4) A mitigation reporting or monitoring plan was adopted for this project
Yes
(5) A Statement of Overriding Considerations was adopted for this project
No
(6) Findings were made pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
No
Attachments
Notice of Determination
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