The City of Ukiah completed a successful downtown streetscape project in Ukiah in 2022, which improved the way State Street (the main street) functions in the downtown corridor. This major project included a road diet, improvements to traffic circulation, sidewalks, and pedestrian crossings. It included a robust community outreach process, which gained input from numerous community workshops as well as substantial stakeholder input. That project began with a planning study funded by a Caltrans transportation planning grant several years ago.
Building on the success of the State Street project, the City would now like to use the same effective formula that was used to create and support that project as a foundation for positive changes to School Street, located adjacent to State Street in the downtown corridor. This proposed multimodal transportation study will identify, analyze, and propose enhancements to the vehicular, pedestrian, and bicycle network along the School Street corridor in downtown Ukiah from Clay Street to Henry Street. This planning effort will result in a final study that will be used to pursue funding to implement identified improvements along the School Street corridor.
This work is funded by a $228,400 Sustainable Communities Grant from the State of California’s Department of Transportation. Total project budget, including the City’s match, is $258,000.
