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9 passages for “Fern Street Connector Path” in City Council meetings
Public Hearing on the Fern Street Connector Path Project (No Council Action). Public hearing held; no Council action taken. Public comments received from several supporters and residents with concerns.
Okay, good evening, Mayor and Council. We are here, this item, to discuss the Fern Street Connector Path and have a public hearing on this. But before we get started, let's see, I would like to just briefly introduce our consultant, Megan Waring, who is from Kimley Horn. So she'll be here helping me discuss the design …
…ncil Member Amos? Aye. Motion passed unanimously. We will move on to public hearing. Our first public hearing is on the Fern Street Connector Path Project, and there's no council action on this item tonight. I'm going to recognize Chloe Ritter, the multimodal transportation planner, to provide the staff presentation.…
This path is about 200 feet long. It meanders throughout that green open space that Chloe mentioned. Along the path, it has amenities similar to the Hill Street project that I know that you are familiar with amenities such as trash receptacles lighting and benches native trees and plant things along there we also have …
Great. So thank you all for having me speak this evening. As you see on the screen here, we have the Fern Street path design. Just to orient yourself as you're looking on the screen, we do have the project twisted to the right. So north is going to be to your right, Fern Street and Park Road. That intersection is on sc…
Hill Street. So those park-like amenities with the trash receptacles, the benches, path-level lighting along there, so very similar to the Hill Street as well with those solar-level path lightings, and then those native trees along the path as well with some plantings at either entrance. You will notice at the entrance…
Is there anybody else in the room that would like to talk on the Fern Street connector?
And I want to give a shout out to the former president of Westmore Civic Association, Beth Iannetta, because she was very involved. She was working with Federal Realty, the developer of that shopping center CVS is right adjacent to the Fern Street. She was working with city staff. She was working with city council memb…
Because the applicant is not providing the east to west street, nor are they including their adjacent property in this application, there is a lack of pedestrian connectivity along the southern portion of the site. The proposed east to west pedestrian path, shown here in green, is not ideal because it is much less dire…