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Consolidated Plan SAN LEANDRO 27 OMB Control No: 2506-0117 (exp. 06/30/2018) The City’s The 2010 ADA Facilities Transition Plan Update is the City of San Leandro's effort to comply with the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) that requires the City to reasonably modify its policies, practices, or procedures to avoid discrimination against people with disabilities. The report identifies physical barriers to accessibility in City-owned facilities and how the City may remove those barriers to facilitate the opportunity of access to all individuals. The Community Development Department’s Priority Needs Survey solicited comments on community facility infrastructure needs and community infrastructure provided by non-profit social service agencies serving San Leandro residents. The City is committed to assisting in these facility improvements in order to assist these agencies provide better services to their clients and/or serve more clients. Describe the jurisdiction’s need for Public Improvements: The City of San Leandro’s Engineering and Transportation Department and Public Works Department are stewards of significant public infrastructure service the City of San Leandro. With City’s population growth and concurrent residential housing construction, booming economy driving a very low commercial building vacancy rates, and proximity to the very strong job centers of Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose and Silicon Valley, there is significant need to maintain the public infrastructure. Both these City Departments maintains important infrastructure such as streets and traffic signals, sidewalks, bicycle lanes, parks, emergency service, sewers, storm drains, water treatment, public buildings, the urban forest, access to the San Francisco Bay through the marina and various boat launches, and a state of the art fiber optic installation. All of this infrastructure requires ongoing stewardship and maintenance that employs a significant workforce with expertise and service provision work ethic. A selection of Public Improvement needs identified include: • Improved and added bicycle infrastructure, • Traffic calming, • ADA Sidewalk accessibility including curb ramps and sidewalk widening, • Flood prevention, • Improved Maintenance and added Street trees. How were these needs determined? The needs for public improvements have been determined in the following ways: 1) studies and ongoing stewardship of public infrastructure by City staff, 2) by comments on public infrastructure needs and priorities noted by the members of the City Council and the Mayor, and 3) by responses to the Community Development Department’s Priority Needs Survey conducted to gather input for the FY 2020-2024 Consolidated Plan. 265