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Steven Todd Lerian <
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Subject:Updated Broad Street Plan
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Dear Mayor and City Council Members,
First, we would like to thank you for agreeing to begin the process of revising and updating the 2014 South
Broad Street Corridor Plan at your February 6, 2024 City Council meeting. Allocating $800,000 to hire new
staff and contract with outside consultants was a huge step toward launching a revised plan that would serve
a large swath of citizens who utilize and travel on South Broad Street each day, and who are concerned about
their safety.
It has come to our attention that the Active Transportation Department at the City may have uncovered
potential additional funds available to support the project through a "Federal Safe Streets and Roads for All"
grant. This source could possibly fund a demonstration project that would include low-cost improvements on
the corridor in the near future, such as re-striping the existing traffic lanes to narrow them, improving bike
lane separation, addressing intersection sight lines, etc. These funds might also be used to purchase and
install permanent digital Speed Signs on Broad Street to help reduce speeds in both directions.
All of these potential improvements would help kick-start the project and give citizens hope that long-term
soloutions to these serious problems would be addressed over the next few years. We urge you to approve
staff's request to submit an application for this grant by voting "yes" on Consent Agenda item 6i at Tuesday's
City Council meeting.
Thank you for your considetation.
Sincerely,
Steve & Lori Lerian
517 Bluerock Drive,
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Cell Phone: 805-602-2243
slerian@calpoly.edu
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