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Engineering and Construction Manager Patterson stated that the consultant and staff have worked on a project that is very much outside the box. He further stated that it is only a concept at this point and that he has books that exhibit similar concepts available. City Engineer Lynch introduced the design team and showed an aerial view of the Blomquist Street proposed extension. He stated Manna Consultants, Inc. has agreed to look at other options such as a double arch bridge, a cable stay bridge and a single arch steel bridge. He stated that considering the span and other constrictions, the single arch steel bridge seems to be very competitive with the other conventional types. He described the various constraints involved and introduced the various consultants involved in the design and plan. Bill Julius of the Beals Group stated that various meetings occurred with the Architectural Review Committee. Costs involved were environmental as well as money. Time was a consideration as well. The opportunity is to create either a gateway or a significant landform that would make people identify both the City of Redwood City and the fact that the move goes across the waterways. The environmental impact of the current conventional type bridge that is going across the creek today would make it much more difficult to build due to earthquake standards and the costs involved with exporting what is considered toxic soil on the site. He stated the proposed type of bridge gives additional tie-in to both the trail system and the bridge element into downtown. The other element found throughout the bridge area is the catalyst that it provides to the visionary design of that area. One concept is an area in which a waterfront park could be developed. The following questions were asked by Council to be addressed by design consultants, staff or the Architectural Review Committee: 1. To what extent piling is involved with the arch and whether pilings would include the creek area. 2. What the distance between the water and the base of the bridge would be at the bottom of the bridge. 3. What is needed to provide for a pedestrian/bicycle path link up underneath the Caltrans bridge. 4. How long the U-shaped channel would be. 5. How would a park function with the specific proximity to the freeway. 6. More specificity in terms of the arch concept, does it work and why next to a concrete freeway. 7. Staff is preparing thoughts in regard to the community in the Bair Island and Glenborough Pauls housing concept area, how would this fixture fit in with that concept. 8. Describe the architectural integration of the bridge as a feature in Redwood City, 9. In realigning the bridge, what would be entailed, such as special permits. 10. What the bridge does to the skyline when standing looking west of the freeway REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING JULY 9, 2001 MINUTES PAGE 9 MINUTES Book No. 58 Page No. 463