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Bicycle, Pedestrian & Trails Committee Agenda Report October 24, 2022 Item 4 SUBJECT: REVIEW OF THE WEST LAS POSITAS BOULEVARD CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT PLAN SUMMARY In 2018, the City of Pleasanton adopted an update to the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan. The updated Master Plan includes provisions to make the City more pedestrian and bicycle friendly by adopting a low stress “all ages and abilities” design philosophy and promote pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure that can be used by the entire population. The Master Plan identifies the West Las Positas Boulevard corridor between Foothill Road and Fairlands Drive as the highest priority corridor for pedestrian and bicycle improvements. The City Council identified West Las Positas corridor improvements as a high priority project in 2019 and reaffirmed this in 2021. Accordingly, the West Las Positas Corridor Improvement Plan was developed with extensive public input, and endorsed by the Bicycle, Pedestrian and Trails Committee (BPTC) in December 2019 and the project was ready to be presented to City Council in February of 2020. Presentation of this project to the City Council was delayed due to the pandemic. At the same time, the City has continued to advance the planning and design for reconstruction of West Las Positas to address the ongoing issue of settling of the roadway surface . In 2021 the City Council, through the Work Plan process, combined the West Las Positas Reconstruction and the West Las Positas Corridor Improvement projects into a single project. Staff is now proposing to move forward with more detailed design work for the West La s Positas Reconstruction Project, incorporating pedestrian and bicycle improvements as part of the future roadway design. Therefore, staff will be presenting the WLP Corridor Improvement Plan to City Council for approval on November 15, 2022. Approval of the WLP Corridor Plan will allow for appropriate design direction during the 35-percent design drawings of the WLP Reconstruction project. Staff will also be requesting Council to authorize a more limited set of “quick build” pedestrian- and bicycle improvements that can be implemented in the near term, at relatively modest cost. RECOMMENDATION Receive information and provide staff with feedback as necessary. FINANCIAL STATEMENT The West Las Positas Corridor Improvement Plan (i.e. pedestrian and bicycle improvements project) was developed to have a phased implementation with 6 phases, and with the “quick build” improvements as Phase 1. As shown, the “quick build” improvements will have an