CMABS News: January 23, 2025
Hey everyone! As always there is a lot happening to make our streets better in Costa Mesa. Let’s dive in ⤵️
The 2025 CMABS resolutions are here!
Every year, we send the City Council a list of resolutions for what the city should accomplish in this new year. You can view the letter we sent HERE (scroll to the second page). In summary, we’ve asked the City Council to focus on the following:
Leveraging our Pedestrian Opportunity Zones (POZs), including implementing no-right-turn-on-red, removing green-yield-left-turns, and disfavoring car-oriented land uses (like drive thrus) where appropriate within the POZs
Implement AB 413 (Daylighting), which prohibits parking within 20 feet of any unmarked or marked crosswalk
Work to increase, and innovate with respect to, staffing and retention at CMPD to enforce traffic laws
Focus traffic enforcement on red-light running, reckless driving, speeding, and illegal parking
Adopt modern and innovative land-use and parking policies
Move to phase 2 for protected bike lanes, including concrete-protected bike lanes
Utilize the Major Accident Investigations Team to analyze street infrastructure
If you want to help us advocate to make these resolutions a reality, let us know!
Talbert Regional Park Master Plan: Make your voice heard!
OC Parks, the Orange County agency in charge of Talbert Regional Park, is currently collecting feedback on a master plan for that park. Talbert Regional Park lies just south of Fairview Park and also is directly adjacent to the Santa Ana River Trail. CMABS is readying a letter to make the following recommendations:
Consider all land under County jurisdiction in the planning process (including parts of Costa Mesa)
Connect South Talbert Park to West 19th Street with a new trail
Remove the detour to Huntington Beach from North Talbert Park
Incorporate the recommendations of Costa Mesa’s Santa Ana River Trail Vision Study, which is packed full of great ideas from Costa Mesa residents and public officials
If you’d like to support CMABS’s recommendations or to make your own comments, email OC Parks staff here! Feel free to copy and paste our bullet point list above if you are looking for some inspiration.
Daylighting Project Call for Volunteers
Board Members Marc and David are working on a project to identify intersections that need daylighting treatments across the city! Got a tough intersection needs daylighting? Click here an let us know if you’d like to help or have any questions!
Don’t know what daylighting is? You can review our presentation here.
Join us for a Walk Audit this Sunday!
Join us this Sunday, January 26 at 1PM as we do our first walk audit. We will be walking in the SoBECA Pedestrian Opportunity Zone for one and a half to two miles. We will start at the southeast corner of Baker/Randolph and end at Green Cheek around 2:30PM.
Want to meet some fellow street safety folks?
We, along with a coalition of other organizations, are planning an event on February 27th in Fullerton. Save the evening and details to come soon!
Join Lillördag - Costa Mesa’s weekly social bike ride!
When? Every Wednesday Night
@6:15pm meet up
@6:30pm ride begins
Where? Lions Park in Costa Mesa, meet by the bathrooms on 18th street
What? Casual/Party pace bike ride, 10-15 mile rides around the area. 🚨Bring lights! 🚨
Nothing is on our radar for this week! But that doesn’t mean we should take the week off. Got a problem with your street? Report it using the Costa Mesa 311 app! Too big for 311? Write your City Council representative. The more they hear about how we are using our streets and the challenges we face, the more likely we will see action!
City Council moves forward Adams Avenue project and Safe Routes to School Action Plan
In a very newsy first meeting, the Costa Mesa City Council approved the initial contract to design the Adams Avenue multipurpose trail (conceptually pictured above) and the contract to develop the city’s first ever Safe Routes to School Action Plan. Both are pretty huge! The Adams Avenue project, which is partially funded by an Orange County Transportation Authority grant, got a nice write-up in the Daily Pilot not too long ago. And the Safe Routes to School Action Plan, also funded by grants (this time from the Federal government), is going to be a great asset for the city. Our school routes are some of the biggest missing links in our network of truly safe walking and bicycling infrastructure, and the grant is big enough to cover routes to every school — plus four in Newport Beach! Costa Mesa is doing some great stuff.
That’s all for now. Have a great week!
