Arcata Receives Funding to Begin Planning For Multi-Use Trail Project, Seeks Community Input

This is a press release from the City of Arcata:

Arcata, CA – The City of Arcata has received a grant from the Caltrans Sustainable Communities Program to begin plans for a new multi-use trail in Arcata.

This new project will be known as the Annie and Mary Trail Connectivity Project, which will create a new trail that will connect Sunset Avenue/Larson Park to Valley West and the Aldergrove Industrial Park via West End Road.

The grant received includes funding to support public outreach and planning activities to help improve safety on the Sunset Avenue and Giuntoli Lane overpasses and to identify trail alignments and connections to the new trail from neighborhoods, park areas and businesses.

The Annie and Mary Trail Connectivity Project Team includes knowledgeable engineers and planners from the City of Arcata, the Redwood Community Action Agency, TrailPeople and SHN who are committed to ensuring robust public participation throughout the planning process.

The project team will work to assess current opportunities and challenges for pedestrians between downtown Arcata, the Valley West neighborhood and Humboldt State University in addition to developing concept design alternatives for a trail and/or on-street facilities for safe pedestrian connectivity between these important community destinations.

Community outreach activities surrounding this project will include a neighborhood survey, walking tours of the area, opportunities for the City to partner with schools and families, neighborhood meetings and interactive public workshops.

The final report of this planning process will enable the City to seek funds for neighborhood safety improvements and for the design and construction of the new trail.

The first public workshop regarding the Annie and Mary Trail Connectivity Project will be held on Monday, February 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the D Street Neighborhood Center, located at 1301 D Street in Arcata. All interested community members are encouraged to attend and share their input with the Project Team.

Community members who are unable to attend the workshop are encouraged to take a short survey to offer their ideas on this project. For more information, or to take the survey, visit cityofarcata.org or call 707-825-2128.

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Willie Caso-Mayhem
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5 years ago

🕯Sounds like a healthy project.

For Sure
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5 years ago

This sounds good, but please DON’T FORGET the trail they are planning where they will “remove” 40% of the Eucalyptus trees on 101, between Eureka & Arcata. Get active on that one, please! They are voting on it at the end of January!!

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  For Sure

Why? They were assessed by an arborist as half-dead, they are going to begin removing themselves onto passing motorists. They’re not native, they drop huge boney seeds all over and their leaves take FOREVER to decompose.

Willie caos- mayhem
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5 years ago
Reply to  For Sure

Are they for looks or do they serve a purpose? It’s what they’ll look at when they vote.

Faro
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Faro
5 years ago

I think originally they were planted as a windbreak but they are so tall now they arnt really effective for that purpose. Multiple arborists have said they are dying and they are definatley hazardous. But there are a lot of tree fanatics in Humbokdt that prioritize trees over human safety.

The new trail sounds great. Arcata has some issues but there’s so many good things happening there, it’s pretty awesome.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  Faro

I am one of those tree fanatics, but those trees aren’t native, aren’t healthy and ARE hazardous. If Humboldt Bay has a drought in the near future, they will be a formidable fire hazard as well.

mynamehere
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mynamehere
5 years ago
Reply to  Jaekelopterus

Agreed

Willie caos- mayhem
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5 years ago
Reply to  Faro

🕯Thanks for the input.

curlybill
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curlybill
5 years ago
Reply to  For Sure

That ship has sailed.
The $13.3 million grant money has been approved.
As soon as the permits and easements are approved Caltrans can start work on the overpass at Indianola Rd and safety corridor improvement project.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  curlybill

~Cal Trans. That’s a whole nother Shinola. It’s not like we’re having a population boom. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Like when Fortuna -via fed bribe$/Grant$- took out the second lane for a bicycle path, going east from the intersection of Fortuna Blvd., and Riverwalk. And did all those sidewalks and curbs and gutters and flashing cross walk signs on Rohnerville Road. $$$$$$$$$$.

Again, i don’t live any where near Indianola Road, so i don’t have a clear picture on what may, or, may not be the use/need for a “SAFETY CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT -project.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago

~the trees don’t burn. Just the homes and people and vehicles vaporize. The trees are left for, richer than Bill Gates, Red Emmerson. But maybe he’s not prone to foreign eucalyptus idk.

I don’t live in that area, but i have lived by huge Eucalyptus trees that did come down in high winds. Just missed the home i was living in at time. I moved soon after. If they’re old and have been given the once, twice and maybe even thrice-over, by professional tree guys, and marked as a hazard. Then, imho, down they should come.

Willie caos- mayhem
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5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

They are prone to disease.

Humboldt Original
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Humboldt Original
5 years ago

What’s the deal with the “proposed housing development” west of Alliance? That’s solidly mapped wetlands next to Jane’s Creek. What kind of idiot proposes new housing in such an area, and tsunami inundation zone to boot. Danco, is that you?

Bozo
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Bozo
5 years ago

Californians voted for an ‘eternal’ Gas Tax… now look where the money is goin’.

BTW… why doesn’t somebody investigate why gas
is $.50 a gallon more in Humboldt County than ‘most’ of the rest of California ?

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  Bozo

~i’d say that, not unlike a new fed courthouse in McKinleyville that DOES NOT have a court file clerk, is because we’re behind the Redwood Curtain is my guess. The @System@ is in free-fall. Let’s not crash and burn.

curlybill
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curlybill
5 years ago

It does seem that the Guintoli Lane overpass @ 299 could be more pedestrian friendly, not to mention multi modal.
This will be a positive thing, even if the Annie and Mary Trail only gets people a safe way to get to the park along the river.