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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-10-08; City Council; Resolution 2024-229RESOLUTION NO. 2024-229 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, ACCEPTING THE HOPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOL PLAN WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California has determined that improving traffic safety near Hope Elementary School is necessary and desirable to encourage students and residents to bike and walk to and from school and throughout the surrounding residential neighborhood; and WHEREAS, the proposed project improvements will include various traffic calming measures and pedestrian crossing enhancements to meet the project goals to slow down traffic and enhance walkability and bikeability; and WHEREAS, as a long-term solution to address the existing gap in the Class-II bike lanes on Tamarack Avenue, a Class-I shared use path would be constructed on the east side of Tamarack Avenue from Chatham Road to the Hope Elementary School frontage to provide a separated facility for people walking and on bikes to access the school site and surrounding neighborhood, as funding is identified; and WHEREAS, the proposed Class-I shared use path will be further evaluated during the engineering design process for any potential environmental impacts, and an environmental assessment will be conducted to ensure compliance with all applicable environmental requirements; and WHEREAS, this action to accept the Hope Elementary School Safe Routes to School Plan does not constitute a project within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act under Public Resources Code section 21065 in that it has no potential to cause either a direct physical change in the environment or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment. The direction provided by the City Council does not have a legally binding effect on future discretionary actions to approve the project. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California, as follows: 1. That the above recitations are true and correct. 2. That the City Council accepts the Hope Elementary Safe Routes to School Plan.