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COUNCIL ITEM REQUEST FOR
RECEIVED
JUN: ... 8 2022
City Clerk's Office
City of Santa Clara
The Council Item Request Form is for members of the City Council to submit written requests to the City Manager's Office for inclusion of an item on a future City Council meeting agenda. At the meeting where the initial written request is heard, discussion should be limited to whether the item should be added to an agenda and a date, not the merit of the item. A majority vote of the City Council is required for the item to be added to future Council meeting agenda foraction.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Requesting Member of City Council : Suds Jain
Contact E-mail_ [email protected]_
Contact Phone 408-499-2955 _______ _
Today's Date.6/8/2022
WRITTEN REQUEST
I, Suds Jain _______ , hereby request that the following item be placed on the City of Santa Clara Council and Authorities Concurrent meeting agenda:
The San Tomas Aquino trail is very popular as a commute route as well as for people recreating . I ride it frequently. Often there are groups of employees walking the trail at lunchtime. It is very difficult to walk side-by-side with all the other traffic on that trail. I expect that there would be fewer collisions were the trail to be widened and it would be a more pleasurable ~, route.
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At the June 7, 2022 City Council meeting, the Council approved a housing development project by Greystar adjacent to the trail and also approved to amend the General Plan to add a Future Freedom Circle Focus Area. It seems to me that as we develop adjacent to the creek trail, we should look at any opportunity to widen the trail
I would like to have a discussion on the City Council to discuss working with the Water District and any other agency with jurisdiction to widen the trail. The discussion should also include a discussion of the costs of a study to look at all the opportunities for widening the trail and associated costs.
Reference: Council Policy 030- Adding an Item on the Agenda Resolution No. 20-8895