COMMERCIAL CENTER SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL AND GREEN STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT

COMMERCIAL CENTER SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL AND GREEN STORMWATER INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT

The project will generate a seamless network of complete streets creating safe routes to Grand Oaks School and connections to improved open space areas, trails, residential neighborhoods, shopping, employment centers, government facilities, Tribal owned land, recreation areas, and other local destinations. These projects will serve the needs of all transportation users including pedestrians, bicyclists, people with disabilities, transit riders, and motorists. The WRHCO has begun master planning the commercial center property, and coordination with WRHCO and their design team is anticipated. The roadway portion of the project will have complete streets components to promote multi-modal transportation. Coordination with the urban designer, landscape architect, Redding Rancheria (and their design team) and the City is required to provide a seamless concept of complete streets and to complement the commercial center’s development vision. The project also includes an approximately 2-acre open space on the northeast portion of the project site, adjacent to Moody Creek. This area has been set aside to provide amenities such as walking trails, native landscaping including shade trees, green sustainable stormwater infrastructure including bio-retention, bio-swales, pedestrian lighting, seating, picnic benches, shade structure, drinking fountains, waste receptacles, and bike racks. The goals of the project are to: • Enhance safety and ease of travel for school children who walk, bicycle, carpool, and/or utilize transit to travel to school or school-related activities. • Provide safe facilities for all transportation users – pedestrians, bicyclists, people with disabilities, transit users, and motorists. • Decrease traffic congestion around Grand Oaks School, reduce school-related travel emissions, and improve the health, well-being, and safety of students and residents. • Enhance walking and bicycling safety, comfort, and convenience. • Create a natural recreation space to increase opportunities for physical activity and utilize the natural infrastructure of the site in conjunction with green sustainable stormwater infrastructure to maximize stormwater capture and minimize pollution. In general, the identified Project improvements include: • Construction of curb, gutter, sidewalk, utilities, drainage infrastructure and lighting improvements to: - 700± linear feet; Grand Avenue from Shasta Way to Wonderland Boulevard - 850± linear feet; Shasta Way from Grand Avenue to Shasta Dam Boulevard - 600± linear feet; Cascade Boulevard from Shasta Dam Boulevard to Wonderland Boulevard - 200± linear feet; Shasta Dam Blvd (SR-151) from Shasta way east towards Cascade Boulevard • Construction of 600± linear feet of new Wonderland Boulevard from Cascade Boulevard to Grand Avenue including: - Street section consistent with an 84-ft right of way per City of Shasta Lake Construction Standards (COSLCS) including landscaped medians. - Complete street design components - Utility design & coordination (water, wastewater, stormwater, joint utility trench & irrigation) - Safe crossing infrastructure from Commercial Center site to open space (across Wonderland Blvd.) • A 2-acre open space adjacent to Moody Creek with the following improvements: - 1600± linear feet of improved trails - Pedestrian lighting, seating, picnic benches, a shade structure, drinking fountains, trash receptacles, signage, and a bike rack - Enhanced water-wise landscaping and shade tree planting consistent with existing and native flora. - Green sustainable stormwater infrastructure including bioretention and bioswales

Shasta Lake

Shasta

Citywide

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Education, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Northern and Eureka Region 1 (CDFW), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), California Department of Transportation, District 2 (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Planning (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Fish and Game Commission (CDFGC), California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Natural Resources Agency, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Redding Region 5 (RWQCB), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Central Valley Flood Protection Board, Delta Stewardship Council, Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, University of California Natural Reserve System (UCNRS)

Transportation:Highway/Freeway (SR 151 Active Transportation Improvements), Transportation:Local Road (Active Transportation Improvements)

Redevelopment, None

Air Quality, Biological Resources, Noise