San Mateo County projects will receive about $13 million as part of the first package of long-awaited bipartisan 2024 spending bills, according to the office of U.S. Rep. Kevin Mullin, D-South San Francisco.
Transportation improvements, increasing affordable child care spaces, expanding recreational opportunities across the district and addressing stormwater infrastructure are part of the package.
Among other projects in San Mateo County, it includes:
• 19th Avenue/Fashion Island Boulevard Complete Streets Bikeway Project — $500,000 for a new 1.3-mile separated bikeway connecting the Hayward Park Caltrain Station with residences and business centers in eastern San Mateo and Foster City.
• Caltrain Grade Crossing Improvements Project — $500,000 for safety and accessibility enhancements at Caltrain’s Grade Crossing projects at Main Street and Whipple Avenue in Redwood City.
• Coyote Point Recreation Area — $1 million for an all-abilities playground.
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center Rehabilitation — $850,000 for San Mateo’s renovations planning and design work.
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• Middlefield Junction Early Learning Center — $1 million for Peninsula Family Service to construct a brand-new center-based early learning facility in North Fair Oaks, Redwood City that will provide 36 new spaces for infants and toddlers.
• Old Bayshore Highway Streetscape Project — $500,000 for streetscape improvements that create safer, more convenient and more comfortable vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian connections along a major thoroughfare, Old Bayshore Highway, that connects to SFO, the Millbrae intermodal transit station, and the city of Millbrae to the north.
• Port of Redwood City for Storm Water and Clean Water Improvement — $700,000 for an overhaul its stormwater infrastructure.
• Redwood City YMCA — $1 million for construction of a new 38,000-square-foot YMCA facility.
• San Mateo County Sustainable Streets Pilot Project — $850,000 for the design of five shovel-ready projects.
• South San Francisco Centennial Way Trail Outdoor Learning Center — $1,666,279 to improve, enhance and beautify a portion of the Centennial Way Trail.
This legislation is expected to be signed into law by President Biden later this week.
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Great stuff. Mullin is leading in the primary 75-25. I wonder if he'll get closer to 70% or 80% in his November win.
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