City Council Meeting

Chloe Ritterstaffthe works over several last several years including a bike lane on Leighton Hall Drive which would connect to the Willard Sherwood Center and the Blenheim Boulevard bicycle facilities there are bicycle lanes south of Old Town currently that were installed several years ago. The Q bus route now runs on this portion of University Drive, and we've installed bike share stations nearby. And then there was the University Drive traffic calming project to the north. So this is another piece in a bigger network of bicycle and multimodal improvements in this area. Just looking at the project from north to south, there's kind of three main sections of this project, design details in a moment but basically at the north end the Leighton Hall Drive

Catherine ReadOkay. So the small area plans are a concept, not a blueprint. That's where we start, in my opinion. has wanted to change at this plaza for decades. I've been here since I was a student in 1981 walking to this plaza from the campus so I've seen how much it has not changed. So we have a property owner who wants to improve the property and we are demanding that they give us the whole picture even though they've made it clear that the long-term lease at Safeway has locked them into parameters that make that difficult. That's the first thing. The second thing is the development all around the shopping center could dramatically change how future councils see the possibilities of that space. That includes the building of the Willard Sherwood Center. We built the