Why Does Connect the Coastside’s 30-Year Plan Not Include Dedicated General Fund Funding?

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VIDEO. From the Midcoast Community Council meeting 1/27/2021 with San Mateo County Planning, Deputy Director of Public Works, Joe Lococo, presenting.

Connect the Coastside is a 30-year plan, with no dedicated general fund funding. This plan relies entirely on grant hunting.

Historically, the grants don’t come through and the plans become stale, according to Chris Johnson, ex-MCC, who has seen 1980 traffic plans that have never come to fruition. The Coastside is still waiting for the completion of the Parallel Trail, due to lack of grant funding.

Crosswalk History in Moss Beach, Montara and Mirada

What happened to these 2014 Plans? They even had cost-estimates…for grants.

 

 

 

 


CTC Final Draft Include Midcoast Alignment Completion of California Coastal Trail

SAN MATEO COUNTY PLANS for Connect the Coastside (CTC)

CTC Final Administrative Draft

Description

Recommended California Coastal Trail alignment and improvements in the Midcoast including:

  • wayfinding signage.
  • Class I Path
  • Class III Bike Route
  • sidewalks
  • trails
  • paths

Source

Highway 1 Safety and Mobility Improvement Study Phase 2 (p.24-27), Connect the Coastside

Rationale

Traffic safety and multimodal circulation concern – implementing appropriate signage, marked crossings, sidewalks, bike routes, and other infrastructure to define the alignment and access points for the California Coastal Trail, improving circulation and safety for this important Midcoast destination.

Location

Various streets and trails between Point San Pedro (north of Devil’s Slide Trail) and Half Moon Bay Coastal Trail

Discussion

The California Coastal Trail (CCT) is envisioned as a continuous, interconnected public trail system spanning over 1,200 miles from Oregon to Mexico made up of a network of public trails, streets, and bikeways for walkers, bikers, equestrians, wheelchair riders and others along the coastline. In the Midcoast, the planned CCT route is approximately 10 miles long from Point San Pedro to Half Moon Bay. Some sections of the Midcoast CCT trail alignment have been built and each section’s configuration varies considerably. In some areas, it traverses roadways on the land-side of Highway 1, such as in Montara where it is designated on Pedro Mountain Road, and in others it is an earthen bluff-top hiking trail, such as in Pillar Point Bluff, a San Mateo County Park.

The CCT is and continues to be an important destination for residents and visitors. Defining a preferred alignment and adding infrastructure to support trail use and access (e.g., marked crossings, sidewalks, and paths where needed) will create safer conditions for trail users and more predictable conditions for motorists.

Connect the Coastside recommends a Midcoast CCT alignment as shown in the map below, with an emphasis on completing sections that overlap with multimodal transportation needs (south of Highway 1 and 1st Street). Where the alignment of the trail is on local roads, Connect the Coastside recommends a combination of decomposed granite paths (if sidewalks are not present), with Class III Bikeway and wayfinding signage.

In some areas, new paths would need to be constructed (such as connecting the two ends of Vallemar Street in Moss Beach). In some cases, the alignment overlaps with other recommended projects (such as the Multimodal Parallel Trail (Pe2)); recommended improvements are described in those projects.

Alternate alignments of the CCT from path erosion due to sea level rise would need to be considered in a future planning study recommended by this Plan.

 

 


 

 

Final Administrative Draft of Connect the Coastside Released By San Mateo County

 

Please join us for a review and discussion of the updates to the plan at the January 27, 2021 meeting of the Midcoast Community Council. We look forward to your feedback on the updated Plan and if it reflects what we heard during the 2020 outreach efforts (see the 2020 Outreach Summary Report for a summary of what we heard and the proposed changes to the plan).

 

CTC Final Administrative Draft

 

We also invite you to join us for a February 10, 2021 San Mateo County Planning Commission meeting for a review and discussion of the updated Plan.

Thank you for your continued participation in Connect the Coastside and we look forward to staying in touch.

Sincerely,

Katie Faulkner, Planner III, County of San Mateo, Planning and Building Department

[email protected]

www.smcgov.org

 


 

Midcoast Community Council (MCC) Meetings ~ 2nd & 4th Wednesdays @ 7:00pm

Watch remotely. Comments and questions by email.

 

MCC Agendas, Videos and Lots and Lots of Documents!

Thanks to exMCC’s Lisa Ketcham for an incredibly well curated website archive on local planning issues.

Link to MCC Virtual Meetings

 


 

Midcoast Community Council Website

Midcoast Community Council (MCC) is an elected Municipal Advisory Council to the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, representing Montara, Moss Beach, El Granada, Princeton, and Miramar.

Regular MCC meetings are on the 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month at 7:00 PM at Granada Community Services District (GCSD) meeting room, 504 Ave Alhambra, third floor, El Granada. 
All MCC meetings are open to the public, and are agendized and posted according to the requirements of the Brown Act.


Agenda item supporting documents are available 72 hours in advance of meetings on http://www.MidcoastCommunityCouncil.org.

Minutes from previous meetings on http://www.midcoastcommunitycouncil.org/2017-2018/

To subscribe to MCC agendas via email, send email to [email protected]


2021 Midcoast Community Council Members

MCC:  [email protected]
P.O. Box 248, Moss Beach, CA 94038

For agendas via email, subscribe to Google Group-MCC-Agendas.

Michelle Weil, Chair – Term Ends: Dec. 2022
Phone: 805-452-7453‬
Email: [email protected]

 

Claire Toutant, Vice Chair – Term Ends: Dec. 2022
Phone: 650-676-5847‬
Email: [email protected]

 

Len EricksonSecretary – Term Ends: Dec. 2022
Phone: 650-400-3175
Email: [email protected]

 

Dave Olson, Treasurer – Term Ends: Dec. 2022
Phone: 650-387-3618
Email: [email protected]

 

Gregg DieguezMember – Term Ends: Dec. 2024
Phone: 650-544-0714
Email: [email protected]

 

Jill Grant, Member – Term Ends: Dec. 2024
Phone: 415-940-3392
Email: [email protected]

 

Dan Haggerty, Member – Term Ends: Dec. 2024
Phone: 650-212-6026
Email : [email protected]

 


 

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