Fairfield City Council is discussing plan to revamp about one block of West Texas Street from McDonalds (Beck Avenue) to the roadway under I-80. The Feb 15, 2011 Fairfield City Council session on the project went well.
It's great news that the city is moving forward on keeping part of the promise to complete redeveloping West Texas Street. Fairfield voters look forward to the main section of West Texas Street, from Beck to Pennsylvania to also be redeveloped. Ideas to redevelop West Texas Street were discussed for decades (check city records). While plans to start the changes should have happened in 2000, happily things are moving forward.
Discussions on adding again another traffic light to West Texas Street will further hurt traffic getting to downtown Fairfield. Fairfield Planning needs to reduce the obstacles in getting from I-80 to downtown and the Solano County capital building.
The $350,000 discussed for this project will be moving forward for now. But who is responsible for the Fairfield Gateway project?
They include: Fairfield Mayor Harry Price, Fairfield City Council members John Mraz, Catherine Moy, Chuck Timm, Rick Viccaro, Erin Beavers, Fairfield Director of Community Development, David White, Assistant to Fairfield City Manager, Curt Johnston, Fairfield Economic Development Division Manager, Brian Miller and many other Fairfield City staff. Steve Kays, founder of Fix Fairfield will continue to press the city to continue making needed improvements as well.
The city spent money on development outside the city center? Did we see much done to downtown in the past decade? Oh some stuff yes, but the big money went to outside the city center? So city center left to rot?
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