Elsinore Residents Invited To Weigh In On Future Downtown Project

LAKE ELSINORE, CA — Lake Elsinore officials are encouraging the public to come out tonight (Wednesday) to a meeting for a proposed "active transportation project" for the downtown region.

"At this time, this project is proposed and the City is working to acquire grant funding for the project," city officials tell Patch.

Here's more about the project and Wednesday's meeting:

Project Name: Urban Greening Grant Project - DOWNTOWN ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION CONNECTIONS & GREEN STREETS (proposed project for grant funding)

Meeting Date: Wednesday, April 4, 2018Time: 6:00 p.m.

Where: Cultural Center, 183 N. Main Street, Lake Elsinore, CA 92530

Who: Residents, surrounding property owners, businesses and other interested stakeholders.

Project Description: The Downtown Active Transportation Connections & Green Streets Project will include active transportation infrastructure and urban greening improvements along Spring Street, Pottery Street, Sumner Avenue, and Heald Avenue. The project will connect downtown Lake Elsinore with the local residential area on Pottery Street with a bicycle and pedestrian bridge that offers convenient access to the core civic and retail areas, transit stops, and access to other hubs via Chaney Street. This project will fill sidewalk infrastructure gaps, striping of bike lanes, install a pre-fabricated pedestrian and bicycle bridge over the Outflow Channel, and install high carbon sequestering street trees in the parkways throughout the project footprint. The project will support the following goals: active transportation access, carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas emission reductions, economic development, and civic empowerment.Find out more at: http://www.lake-elsinore.org/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/5151/18?backlist=%2f

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