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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: SUPERVISOR TOM POWERS, DISTRICT 1
DATE: OCTOBER 6, 1992
SUBJECT: I-80 PROJECT
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. DIRECT GMEDA and County Counsel to contribute to amicus briefs prepared by
the Transportation Authority in support of the 1-80 project.
2. DIRECT GMEDA and County Counsel to take other actions to support
improvement of I-80.
3. DIRECT GMEDA to provide periodic status reports to the Transportation
Committee on the lawsuit and related matters.
FISCAL IMPACT: None
BACKGROUND/REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS:
Recent lawsuit challenging improvements to 1-80. See attachments for more details.
CONTINUED ON ATTACIllNfiiNr: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE: OTHER
SIGNATURE(S):
ACTION OF BOARD ON t✓ ya APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED_X On"_
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE AND
CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AND
UNANIMOUS(ABSENT ) ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS OkPIIE DATE SI[OWN.
AYES. NOES:
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ABSENT. ABSTAIN:
PI III,BATCI-IELOR,CLE OF TI IE BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
BY ,DEPUTY
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Contact: Val Ak wcH(646-1620)
CC: County Administrator
County Counsel
GMEDA Dcpanments
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HIGHWAY 80 PROJECT LEGAL ALERT
Current Effect of Lawsuit Against Caltrans:
1. All 12 design contractors have been halted including the Atlas Interchange at
Hilltop.
2. $10.5 million contract to widen median from Carlson to Dam Road stopped.
3. $14 million contract for the construction of HOV lanes in Alameda County
4. Loss of a significant source of job opportunities and a much needed economic
boost for the East Bay.
Project Elements to be Held Up or Totally Lost if Preliminary
Injunction Granted on 10-30-92:
1. Hercules/4 Project of $9 million may cause Hercules City to pay back$400,000
to Caltrans.
2. Vacaville-Fairfield BART express bus stopped - $120,000
3. AC Transit San Pablo Ave. to EI Cerrito BART stopped - $380,000
4. AC Transit EI Sobrante - Richmond to San Francisco bus stopped - $90,000
5. Other Transit programs in the attached TMP chart would not be implemented.
6. San Pablo Ave. City projects in the attached Parallel Route list would not be
implemented. All that are under design now must be stopped or City risks
having to pay.
Long Term Implications if Lawsuit is Successful:
1. $318,000,000.in funding for the project will be lost to the Bay Area and
perhaps the state.
2. The funds will no be able to be converted into transit or any other type of
funding for the region.
3. Concern that the project will be charged against Alameda and perhaps Contra
Costa's funding minimum.
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4. Loss of the transit and parallel route improvements already programmed and in
some cases operation.
History:
This is a project which has been around for 14 years and is a federally funded
interstate completion program,which is now under construction. The project has been
changed several times in response to concerns by cities and community groups along
the corridor. Caltrans formed an advisory committee approximately 5 years ago in
order to seek input for communities along the highway . The committee commented on
the project design and as a result the project was adjusted by Caltrans. The
committee,along with Alameda and Contra Costa County Cities and transit operators,
also worked with Caltrans to develop mitigation programs. The mitigation programs
developed were parallel route improvements and transit programs designed to relieve
congestion during highway construction. MTC most recently worked with Caltrans to
make changes to the project, primarily to address concerns of the City of Berkeley, City
of Albany,transit operators and environmental groups.
Alternatives to Highway Improvements:
Two years ago the I/S 80 Advisory Committee, in response to interest by its members
to do a transit project instead of a highway project, investigated the possibility of a
transfer of funds. Supervisor Powers worked with Caltrans to investigate what formally
was called an interstate transfer of funds. The result was that Congress had eliminated
the interstate transfer procedure. Moreover,there was little likelihood that new
legislation would revive the transfer process as the Congress was working on a new
transit and highway package (ISTEA ). Furthermore, it was clear from the funding and
planning agencies (FHWA, CTC, Caltrans and MTC)that a delay could result in the
loss of federal funding for the project. It was clear from our investigation that there
were many Interstate Completion Projects that would absorb funding for the I/S 80
project if it did not go forward.
Transportation Mitigation Programs:
The I/S 80 project contains a substantial amount of funds ($14,900,000) dedicated to
transit and ride sharing ($5.9 million), park and ride lots ($1.2 million), vehicle
monitoring and motorist information ($3.8 million), public information ($1.9 million) and
parallel route improvements$2.3 million) and in addition TMP funds of$3.5 million in
San Pablo Ave. improvements in Richmond and San Pablo and several park and ride
lots on I/S 80. Most of the transit projects support BART, AC Transit, Berkeley Trip
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Answer Van, the Vallejo Ferry and RIDES ($7.136 million) are shown in attachment 1.
While some of the projects have started (Feb./Mar., 92) and will be on-going for many
years, the halting of the project will result, not only in stopping construction but the loss
of the transit. likewise the funds for the purchase of park and ride lots shown in
attachment 2 will also not go forward. In addition, the proposed parallel route
improvements in the cities from Oakland to Rodeo described in attachment 3 will not go
forward if the project is halted.
Major Elements of Project:
The main elements of the project through Alameda and Contra Costa Counties are:
- Atlas Road Interchange at Hilltop-Pinole and HOV ramp,
- A high occupancy lane to move carpools vans and buses,
- A bus ramp at Cutting Blvd. to allow direct express bus access to the EI Cerrito
Del Norte BART station,
- Major safety improvements and rebuilding of 80/580 interchange at Albany,
- The completion of the Knox (580) freeway,:
- Miscellaneous safety improvements, over crossings and frontage roads,
- Transit funding to mitigate construction traffic
- Parallel Route improvements for San Pablo and other city streets.
The contracts for the construction have been awarded. One contract for $10.5 million
to rebuild the median between Carlson Blvd. to East of San Pablo Dam has been
stopped due to a temporary restraining order. A second contract to Berkeley based
O.C. Jones and Sons for$14 million has been awarded but not started. These
contracts for construction and their attending jobs, local purchases and tax revenue will
be held up pending further court proceeding. Caltrans estimates that the delays
resulting from the lawsuit will cost $3 to $5 million.
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The entire construction project,transit programs, parallel route improvements and other
project elements total over$318,000,000 and is one of the few large construction
projects in the East Bay.
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Things That Could be Done to Preserve the Project:
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1. Write letters to the Judge of the Alameda County Superior Court in the Case of
Urban Ecology, et. al. vs. State of California,
2. Prepare a declaration to the court and submit it officially through your city of
transit district or individually send it to Caltrans,
3. Like the Contra Costa Transportation Authority and other public agencies,file a
Friend of the Court brief (Amicus Curie) with the Superior Court or ask your
council to do so.
4. Consider joining me and other members of the I/S 80 Advisory Committee
in a press conference next week (call me for date, time and location) to express
your concerns on how the stopping of this project effects your community.
5. Call to local labor leaders, citizens and political leaders to join the effort.
6. Develop letters to send out to local newspapers for an editorial opportunity
piece. The above could be the basis for the letter.
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I-80 TMP ELEMENTS
$14.9 M
PUBLIC INFO/
MARKETING
$1.6M
INFO CENTE
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IMPROVEMENTS MONITORING
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SYSTEMS
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IMPROVEMENTS
$5.9M
PARK & RIDELOTS
$1.2M
Funding- Source
$ 6.0 M from I-80 CC median barrier (EA 180031- non contract items)
$ 6.5 M from I-80 Ala HOV Lane from Ashby to Gilman (EA 180081- noncontract items)
S_2 4 M from I-80 misc. projects (contract items)
$ 14.9 M ------Total
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1. The estimate will ISe based on the actual bid amounts (Consultant=$1.6M, Reconstruction/ Public
Information Office=$.3M0. Public Information Office will be located at 3401 Regatta Blvd in the City
of Richmond, telephone number (510) 215-2080.
2. Costs for trans it/rid esharing improvements may vary depending on the success of those
improvements. Projects will be evaluated Semi-annually for effectiveness.
3. The cost for parallel route improvements is S2.3M (Alameda = SLIM, Contra Costa = S1.2M).. In
addition, another 33.5M is funded by State TSM and 313M by the Cypress Interim TSM. All Cypress
TSM projects have been completed.
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Oakland
k l a=}� nd
to push Iii, -own 'der it-reduction saenoe professor.
pin' Perot, who lett the race in
The Texas billionaire said he July as his popularity began to
hoped to make his decision Thurs
slip and the press questioning
t day based on word from his sup
porters, although he said it could intensified, now finds the elec-
slip to Friday. torate doesn't want hum back-
Only
ackOnly 17 percent would vote
In an evening appearance on
for him in a three-way race
-_ CNN's "Larry King live" he an- with Gov.Bill Clinton and Pres-
nounced a toll-free telephone num- ident Bush,according to the lat-
-:' ber (1-800-925-1300) where those
est TimeICNN poll taken Sept.
not already working for him could 22-24.
register their support. Only 25 percent have a fa-
' 1�` Perot exulted in the spotlight and vorable impression of Perot,the
rWW040MW&ntsrtw*Jr. said there was much common Iatqest of the three candidates,
ground with both camps when it
heip. 16rym-W Cameron Powell takes his came to economics, although nei- Please am IMPACT,
6 Rdwriond horde two weeks ago. ther Bush nor Clinton accepts Per- back page
• .,Blease see PEROT.back page
Les to walk
Ca trans asks court to let
un att�aCk
I.80 expansion proceed
By Michael Cabanatuan ell Street in Emeryville to the pro-
am Wr1W posed Richmond Parkway inter-
Cameron's feelings of despair, anger and eonfu- SAN FRANCISCO — Caltrans, change near Hilltop Mall in
Sion are shared by other members of his large, ex- hoping to get the Interstate 80 ex- Richmond.
tended family of aunts, uncles, cousins and grand- pansion back on the road. filed an "We have spent more than 14
parents. appeal Monday seeking to overturn years working with local communi-
But the fam0y's anguish arises not only from their a ruling that halted the project. ties to develop an environmentally
concerns about Cameron,but also from the fact that The appeal, filed in the state sound project to relieve congestion
he is the latest young man in the family to fall victim Court of Appeal in San Francisco, in the I-80 corridor," said Preston
to the valence in the community. asks the court to rescind the injunc- Kelly, Caltrans District 4 director.
A cousin of Cameron's has been missing for more tion issued by Alameda County Su- `The lawsuit is a last-minute at-
than two years, and the family believes he is dead. perior Court Judge James Lambden tempt by four special-interest
Another cousin was killed in June when he attempt- on Sept. 15 at the request of four groups to stop a project that has
ed to rob a jewelry store,police said. environmental organizations that broad community and public
Cameron is one of 39 boys and seven girls under oppose the expansion. support"
the age of 18 who have been shot in Richmond since That order brought the$318 mil- Stephen Wheeler,a board mem-
the beginning of the year,police said. lion 1-80 expansion to a halt just ber of Urban Ecology, one of the
Concerns about youth and violence have height- days before the California Depart- groups that filed the suit, said the
ened in West County in recent weeks because of a ment of Transportation was to begin appeal was expected.
rash of shootings just after the start of the school marking lanes to make room for 'This is another tactic they are
Please see SHOOTING,back a construction. Caltrans plans to add taking to avoid coming to grips with
�'9 a lane for car pools and buses to the
freeway in each direction from Pow- Please see CAL.TRANS.back page
aiming for gun to shoot payloads into space
kowne fired directly from the Earth into a hutar orbit, eruption of flame, the projectile would travel
the scientists believe. only about 100 feet before hitting a target backed
— In the next several weeks, The lab's huge, Lshaped gun,the product of by sandbags. But if the gun works properly,the
to blast an 11-pound projectile a program called the Super High Altitude Re- lab plans to build a second and larger one to be
mg cannon into a hillside near search Project, or SHARP, is a two-stabe, light- fired next spring at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
works as planned, the shot will gas gun of a type used by laboratories for the last it would shoot a projectile out over the Pacific
toward realizing Jules Verne's two decades to simulate the impact of meteorites Ocean in a suborbital trajectory.
shell to the moon. and the conditions deep inside giant planets like Eventually, planners hope, it full-scale gun
)y scientists at Lawrence liver- Jupiter.But most of the guns used in laboratories could begin firing payloads into haw orbit in
is intended to demonstrate that are only about 20 feet long, and their projectiles preparation for a manned mission to Mars.
city gun hitherto used only for are small plastic plugs weighing less than an Light-gas guns differ from conventional guns
;h can be adapted to send pay- ounce. in an important way:They use hydrogen or heli-
it only about a 40th of what it in the forthcoming shot at Site 300 in the hills um as the propellant gas,.rather than the mixture
m by space shuttle. east of Livermore, the lab gun is expected to ac- of relatively heavy gases produced by burning
from this type of gun werecelerate an I1-pound projectile tvelocity of
anall rocket booster,it could be about 9,000 miles an hour. Leaving line gun in an tilease see LAB,back page
..nut who knctvvv what ,isr. newt mayor Mwyor om sr� ty . P-92-
CaltranS ( ,
FROM PAGE 1A
the core of the issue, which is ..
whether they set aside em`ironmen- „ •'..�;;w`
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tal law and the consideration of
transit alternatives,” he said. •*��
Urban Ecol the Sierra Club,
the Auto-free Bay Area Coalition
i
the
a -
turd the Golden Gate chapter o . ., -
Audubon Society filed the suit Sept.
R: h
.�
$.it contends Caltrans violated state
environmental review laws by fail-
ing to prepare a new environmental
impact report after the project was
revamped.The groups also say Cal-
trans should have looked at mass
transit alternatives to widening the.
freeway. -
Catera
ns 's the environmental
+ r
review process was proper. The
only change in the project -- mak-
ing the new lane a carpool and bus
lane--was made at the request of
the same environmentalists who
filed suit, Kelly said.
Lambden scheduled an initial %I ;
hearing on the lawsuit for Oct. 38
r
since Caltrans had been prepared to
start construction. Caltrans spokes-
man Jose Moreno said $1 million THIRD BASEMAN Carney Lansford. left. and teammates pour champagne o•
had ,)reale been spent to get the Russa on Monday night after the A's clinched their fourth Western Division tit
contractor rea t'•r m start work, Cal-
trans er-i-nates a +5-div legal dc!avc ntluht3 :tixt;7t. Ilte ♦t•huic first ha!" mtiumi
will cost S?million to S4 million and t.f the -wasu3Y, all I heard evil: tt� admin+
delay the pro;^r, for months. A � can'! %vin with the Eric 'roars and hesi. '!
"The htv;uit is 0earh• a back- ie:'r� Brown". Ise,s pull out those ticctSon
handed at:em— to stop the project. !=R()ivt PAGE to + - - - file,now and see where uv are. rtes
said Tony Arziano. a Caltrans at. . "Ihis is whai I dreamed about :12; abdun
tornev. championship is the most meanin-r- tivi»ter while rehabbing ntv knee." strairie
Norman La faire.. iin El Cerrito . ful. All year long the club has bat- landord almost had his career son is
city councilman e,,hu is an attorney fled a mountain of injuries. usinL
end premature)} when he suffered a . stiifne:
iter the envinin-rental groups.said it the disabled list a franchise record ,serious knee injury in a snotvntobi{e has a .
is very rare for an appellate court to 23 times. accident on New Year's Eve in 1994- him fro
overturr. a trial court decision of Even without the disablements, He missed all but five games last ..Ur
this tope The court must first de- few experts thought the A's couici Season and nearly retired. the bel
tide if it wants to hear the case. 'in. They had numerous key play. •y was hoping we could have a guys r
ers in their mid-30s and %vere cont- gT3.'
then schedule a hearing. fake mound out here," said Lans-
Caltrans contends the environ- finoff a ish h tastdisappointing fourth-place ford• pointing to the restaurant pa- stance
mentalists waited too long to title the y tio. Nobody wanted to race on the
challenge. The agency says it ap "7his year when we walked into field more than he did. it to 1
proved the proiet7 on!got•. 14. 11191, (spring training)." Catcher Terry t•Pd be iying if I raid 1 didn't artethan %
which u-.,uid hive given, opponents Steinbach said. "ail we heard was 'avant to dive on the Co}isetYrn
until May :1 tet filer suit. Attornt•vs the A's finished fourth, the A's are relieve
for t;,_ tmirt+amental groups stir• overpaid. the A's"got 100 111MIX.free . mound.-have been there all nrd igh, "I er )tut
the ar, : ,t wa: not actually ap- agr»is. � t; lance
proved 7trti; the Metropolitan
**The player. a«'rt tick�ti Teti, er avhat :.4vc been through. !'^t We;ss
av ttid have a $;t millint; );uinl; ti3 1i:tsk tri leets. ':l:t;tit I'm
I rar•sp.•-;3ti.%n t;onurri,cion 01:'tl it (t payroll. R4rs:1
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