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9.C. - Page 1 <br /> REPORT <br /> To the Honorable Mayor and City Council <br /> From the City Manager <br /> March 10, 2014 <br /> SUBJECT <br /> Update on Planning Project by San Luis Obispo Students Related to the Broadway <br /> Corridor <br /> RECOMMENDATION <br /> Information only <br /> BACKGROUND <br /> As part of the City's Development Agreement with Stanford University for the Stanford <br /> in Redwood City Project, Stanford provided $75,000 to initiate studies relating to <br /> Broadway. When the agreement was completed in December 2013, funds became <br /> available to initiate a portion of this analysis. During the summer of 2013 the City was <br /> approached by the Planning Department of CalPoly San Luis Obispo to see if there was <br /> a planning project their students could assist in getting started. An agreement was <br /> reached between the City and the University for the students to develop an outreach <br /> program to the neighborhoods along the Broadway Corridor that would look at how they <br /> viewed the corridor today and into the future. <br /> ANALYSIS <br /> The intent of a Broadway Corridor study was twofold. First, the General Plan <br /> anticipates an analysis of the potential for development of a streetcar line that would run <br /> from Downtown to both or either Stanford in Redwood City or Pacific Shores. Second, <br /> the General Plan also anticipates a Complete Streets Program that could potentially <br /> modify portions of Broadway to better accommodate pedestrians and bicycles by <br /> restriping and by physical improvements such as intersection bulb outs and traffic <br /> circles. <br /> Because the Stanford in Redwood City Plan requires Stanford to accommodate either <br /> or both of the General Plan roadway changes, should they be in place at the time <br /> Stanford development occurs, Stanford and the City agreed it was in everyone's interest <br /> to take an early look at the potential impacts of either transportation change. The <br /> physical impacts to Stanford's project are not in question, as the curblines along its <br /> property do not change, but traffic patterns and pedestrian flow likely will. <br /> The goal of the CalPoly student effort was to understand the visions of the various <br /> community groups and interest groups that use and live along the Broadway Corridor. <br /> The study is an academic exercise, much as the project Arizona State Students <br />