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Standard Avenue and McFadden Avenue Bikeways September 23, 2024 Page 2 4 5 4 2 6707), for a term beginning September 17, 2024 and ending upon project completion, and authorize the City Manager to execute the contract. 6. Determine that, pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act, the recommended actions are exempt from further review pursuant to Article 19, Categorical Exemptions Sections 15301(c) and 15304(h). Categorical Exemption Environmental Review Nos. ER-2020-33 and ER-2020-97 were filed for Projects Nos. 20-6965 and 20-6962. GOVERNMENT CODE §84308 APPLIES: No DISCUSSION The Public Works Agency (PWA)’s Engineering Services Division is responsible for the administration and oversight of all Capital Improvement Projects in the City. Additionally, PWA implements a variety of roadway improvements to promote the safety of drivers, bikers, and pedestrians. The Public Works Agency received $11,319,000 from the Traffic System Management Grant for the construction of bikeways. The Standard Avenue and McFadden Avenue Bikeway projects (Projects) were identified in the City’s Safe Mobility Santa Ana Plan (SMSA), Active Transportation Plan (ATP), and Central Santa Ana Complete Streets Plans (CSACS), hereinafter referred to as “Plans.” Each of these plans included extensive amounts of community outreach to ensure that any of the resulting project recommendations were a direct reflection of the community needs and wants. For each of the plans, Community Outreach Plans were developed by City staff and consultant teams which included reaching out to stakeholders, local businesses, and residents, thereby encouraging them to become project champions and to form part of the Community Advisory Committee (CAC). A combined total of 17 community outreach events were held for these plans between 2016 and 2019. Additionally, these plans developed as web-based surveys in which the community had multiple opportunities to provide their input on each of the plans as they were being prepared. All of the outreach ensured that these plans were community driven planning documents that established a road map for City staff to know where the need was and what type of projects to pursue in the future. In response to the project needs identified by the various planning documents, staff pursued grant funding from the ATP in 2018. In May 2019, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) notified the City of Santa Ana that the ATP projects were awarded the requested grant funding. Following the programming of grant funds, City staff began working on the design and additional community outreach efforts for the project. During the design phase for the project in 2021, a combined total of four additional community meetings were held. These outreach meetings focused on providing the history on how the projects were initially identified and on ensuring that the proposed project improvements were still in alignment with what the community wanted to see implemented by these projects. One of the major concerns with both project street corridors was regarding on-street parking. As a result of the parking assessment