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Please distribute to Council members & place with Agenda Correspondence. Thank you.
March 7, 2023
Mayor & Council,
This contentious item needs to be pulled from the Consent Agenda & given a full hearing at a
future Council meeting. Consent Agenda items are supposed to be for non-controversial
issues, as you know.
The "North Chorro Greenway" is unacceptable to the majority of the Anholm neighborhood. It
will be more dangerous than what now exists. Foothill Blvd. has been the dangerous road
which has had 2 bicyclist fatalities is the recent past.
The cost of approximately a one mile section started out as just over a million dollars is now
estimated to be over $6,000,000 & money has been taken from other worthy funds to cover the
costs of the short greenway. By the time it's built costs will probably escalate.
It would, as many in the neighborhood have pointed out repeatedly over the years, been an
affordable to place the greenway on Lincoln St. which is a wide safe street & would work & be
much less costly. Of course the lighting at the Chorro/101 underpass would have to be
included along with some simple signs directing bikes at the 4 way stop at Chorro/Lincoln and
another at Chorro/West.
Please be fiscally responsible as well as safety responsible. Thank you.
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Sincerely,
Cheryl McLean
Anholm
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