City Of Davis: City Receives Over $5 Million In SACOG Grant Funding

Press release from the City Of Davis:

April 15, 2021 2:25 pm

The City of Davis announced today that the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) voted unanimously to grant over $5 million for three Davis projects in the Maintenance & Modernization and Community Design categories from its 2021 Regional Funding Round budget. This funding round comes as a result of a two-year process to assess area projects. The following Davis projects received the funding:

Anderson Road-Chavez Elementary School Improvements $3,090,000
This “complete streets” (a street that is comfortable, safe and usable for bikes, pedestrians and cars) improvement project on Anderson Road between Villanova Drive and Amherst Drive has a number of project highlights: separated bicycle facilities, frontage improvements, on-site improvements for loading activity and parking at César Chávez Elementary School, intersection safety improvements at Villanova Drive and Rutgers Drive, transit stop improvements, and on-street parking construction and landscaping at Redwood Park adjacent to the southern César Chávez Elementary School driveway.

H Street Pathway and Parking Improvements- Phase II $1,823,000
This project includes parking, roadway improvements, and traffic calming improvements on H Street from the H Street bike/pedestrian tunnel entrance to just south of the Davis Little League fields, pathway improvements between J Street and H Street, pathway improvements at the existing H Street tunnel, retaining wall improvements, new sidewalk, installation of fencing, utility adjustments and a new pathway along H Street.

Fifth Street Improvements (L to Pole Line) $100,000 
On Fifth Street between L Street and Pole Line Road, this project will perform engineering work to extend the reconfiguration that reduced the number of vehicular lanes from four to three (two travel lanes plus turn lane).

“This round of SACOG transportation funding enables the City to improve two highly traveled roads in town and provides for much-needed roadway improvements for H St and bicycling and pedestrian safety improvements for the H Street Tunnel,” said Vice Mayor Lucas Frerichs, who also serves as a board member (and former board chair) of the SACOG Board of Directors. 

The Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) is an association of local governments in the six-county Sacramento region. Its members include the counties of El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo, Yuba and the 22 cities within.

SACOG provides transportation planning and funding for the region and serves as a forum for the study and resolution of regional issues. In addition to preparing the region’s long-range transportation plan, SACOG approves the distribution of affordable housing in the region and assists in planning for transit, bicycle networks, clean air and airport-land uses.

Press contact: Barbara Archer, barcher@cityofdavis.org, 530-400-3418

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