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9.A. - Page 2 <br /> put on hold due to concerns with staff's ability to adequately support the committee in a <br /> time of extreme financial constraint. <br /> In the absence of the Advisory Committee, staff has been meeting with an informal <br /> bicycle/pedestrian working group roughly every quarter. This group is convened and <br /> coordinated by the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition and provides input to staff on: <br /> • project selection for grant applications, <br /> • design and construction of bicycle/pedestrian facilities, and <br /> • projects for staff to consider. <br /> Farm Hill Boulevard Street Improvement Pilot Project <br /> In June 2012, City staff initiated a community process to determine if there was interest <br /> in changing the design of Farm Hill Boulevard and Jefferson Avenue and if so, what the <br /> design should look like. This process included the following meetings: <br /> • Community meeting on June 12, 2012 <br /> • Community open houses on September 25 and October 3, 2012 <br /> • City Council meeting on October 22, 2012 <br /> Each of these meetings was noticed via: <br /> • direct mailing to over 600 residents and property owners along the corridor, <br /> • email notification to participants from previous meetings, <br /> • E-news blasts, and <br /> • Updates on the project website. <br /> Over the course of this process a pilot design was developed and refined. In October <br /> 2012, staff presented to Council an analysis of the feasibility of reconfiguring Farm Hill <br /> Boulevard and Jefferson Avenue, from the city's western limit to Alameda de las Pulgas, <br /> from four to three lanes. At that time Council accepted the analysis and directed staff to <br /> pursue similar projects on other roadways and to explore roadway modifications for <br /> Farm Hill Boulevard and Jefferson Avenue that did not require a lane reconfiguration. <br /> The proposed design generally converted the existing 4-lane roadway (two lanes in <br /> each direction) into a 3-lane roadway (one lane in each direction with a two-way center <br /> turn lane). Because the characteristic of the road (grade, curves, adjacent land uses, <br /> etc.) and its width change throughout the corridor, the proposed design varied <br /> somewhat too. Attachment 3 illustrates the proposed design in plan view and shows <br /> typical cross-sections at midblock locations. <br /> Page 2 of 10 <br />