REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
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Accept the Addendum to the Water Pollution Control Plant Master Plan Program EIR, Authorize the City Manager to Accept Grant Funds, and Execute a Sub-recipient Grant Agreement and Approve Budget Modification No. 39 to Appropriate $380,000 from the San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund Grant for the Caribbean Drive Green Street Demonstration Project
Report
GRANT SUMMARY
In May 2016, the San Francisco Estuary Partnership (SFEP), a program of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), submitted an application to US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 for funding through the San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund (SFBWQIF) for the Healthy Watersheds, Resilient Baylands Project (Project). The Project is a multi-strategy effort to develop integrated multi-benefit actions that support healthy watersheds and bayland resilience. The City of Sunnyvale is a partner in the Project which includes $380,000 in grant funds to fund the construction of a Green Street demonstration project in concert with the Clean Water Program's Bay Trail Relocation and Enhancement Project.
The City will leverage grant resources and funding for the Caribbean Drive Green Street Demonstration Project, which will integrate bioretention rain gardens along with the relocated parking for Bay Trail access along Caribbean Drive. The bioretention rain gardens are a new and complementary component of the existing priority project for the Clean Water Program and would result in a prominent demonstration of multi-benefit urban greening concepts and create a unique watershed-to-baylands educational setting for daily Bay Trail visitors and neighboring corporate employees. Traditionally, the primary objective of bioretention features (a form of green stormwater infrastructure) has been to slow, treat, and infiltrate stormwater through specially designed landscaping, thereby minimizing or treating stormwater before it enters local waterways...
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