REPORT TO BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN ADVISORY COMMISSION
SUBJECT
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Approval of the Mathilda Avenue Plan Line
Report
BACKGROUND
The development of a Plan Line is one of the City's key actions to assure the implementation of the City's transportation network. A Plan line allows for the City to designate future build-out of roadway segments by delineating planned right-of-way. This allows the City to require land dedications and limit future building locations and other physical improvements as related to the planned right-of-way line. The process by which a plan line is developed is outlined within Sunnyvale Municipal Code section 19.06. This code section also provides a list of the 58 previously adopted roadway plan line segments including the current Mathilda Plan Line.
In mid-2014, the City was notified that it was the recipient of a Priority Development Area (PDA) Planning Program Grant to develop an updated plan line for Mathilda Avenue between El Camino Real and Washington Avenue. The PDA Planning Program is administered by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) which funds comprehensive planning in PDAs for land uses around public transit hubs and bus and rail corridors in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. Two of the key goals of this program are to: boost transit ridership and thereby reduce vehicle miles traveled by PDA residents, employees and visitors; and promote multimodal connections for residents, employees and visitors within the PDA.
This portion of Mathilda Avenue is the westerly border of the Sunnyvale Downtown Specific Plan Area. The specific plan area was developed in 2003, and recently updated in 2013 to remove a planned carriage road on Mathilda Avenue, and add bike lanes. Since then, the Mathilda Apartments project by Summerhill Homes was conditioned to make modifications to Mathilda Avenue to include a bike lane across its frontage. Both the Downtown Specific Plan and the Mathilda Apartments projects have mad...
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