Highland Elementary Community Connectivity Project

In order to provide you with a high-quality complete streets and active streets the City of Visalia engaged the community with online surveys and public outreach meetings to garner feedback on the proposed projects.

The Highland Elementary School Community, located between Houston Ave and Goshen Ave, is home to many students who attend Highland Elementary School, Redwood High School, and Green Acres Middle School. Thanks to the Active Transportation Program, the City of Visalia is afforded the opportunity to apply for grant funding to not only create safe routes to schools for the students but to also improve the connectivity for the Highland Community at large. 

Potential Project: Highland Community Connectivity Project

The Highland Community Connectivity Project will benefit the community located between Houston Ave, Goshen Ave, Burke St, and Main St as shown below:

Project Goals

The goals of the HCCP is to promote active modes of transportation, such as walking and biking, in the Highland community by creating continuous path of travels to connect the homes, schools, and key neighborhood destinations. In doing so, the project will form safe routes to schools and improve the overall connectivity of the community at large by:

• Filling in missing gaps of sidewalks to create continuous paths
• Improving safety by reworking the crosswalks and curb ramps
• Adding safer bike lanes

Community improvements may include but not be limited to, bulb out construction to improve pedestrian crossings, raised crosswalks, median construction for traffic calming, protected bike lanes, and/or narrowing of traffic lanes.

Bulb-out Curbs:

Source: Crafton Toll

Raised Crosswalk:

Source: New York City Dot

Thank you for being an important part of this public feedback process.

For more information or questions about the grant application process, please contact Diego Corvera, Senior Civil Engineer at (559) 713-4209 or [email protected].