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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to administer and execute all necessary documents to participate in the Gateway Cities Council of Governments Needs Assessment Study of the State Route 91 (SR-91) and Interstate 605 Freeway (I-605) Corridor in an amount not to exceed $20,000. (Districts 3,4,5,9)
DISCUSSION
The impact of increased auto and truck congestion on and around the SR-91 and I-605 Freeway interchange has been an issue of discussion amongst impacted cities in the Gateway Cities Council of Governments (COG). Based upon those discussions, the COG Board of Directors voted to initiate a Needs Assessment Study of the SR-91/I-605 Corridor and invite the cities of Artesia, Bellflower, Cerritos, Compton, Downey, Hawaiian Gardens, Lakewood, Long Beach, Norwalk, Paramount, Pico Rivera, Santa Fe Springs and Whittier and the County of Los Angeles to participate. These cities align the SR-91 Freeway from Alameda Street east to the Orange County line, and the I-605 Freeway from the northerly COG boundary south to the Orange County line (see attachment).
The Needs Assessment would serve as a preliminary study to determine whether or not there is a need to initiate a major corridor study to determine physical improvements required to accommodate future growth, and if so, identify the scope and limits of that study. Alternatively, the assessment may find that the needs would best be served by a series of short-term improvements of limited scope. The results of the Needs Assessment could also be used to secure regional and state funding and support if physical improvements are found to be warranted, as well as to create more formalized and extensive community participation. Likely areas of community concern include air quality, right-of-way or property impacts, aesthetics, noise and arterial highways.
Because a number of member cities are involved in efforts to fund improvements of both the I-5 and I-710 corridors, the COG Executive Committee a...
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