Higuera Complete Streets project funding and construction
Summary
The council put the city's top-priority safety project on track to break ground this summer: protected bike lanes, 45 high-visibility crosswalks, and a road diet on Higuera between Bridge and Margarita. It accepted a future traffic 'deficiency' at Higuera/Los Osos Valley Road and moved roughly $3.2 million between accounts to close a funding gap.
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Last discussed Feb 17, 2026.
Impact analysis
$12.96 million total, over $9 million from grants, plus $2 million in city infrastructure funds and $1.02 million transferred from six other capital accounts.
Everyone who walks, bikes, or drives Higuera — especially students heading to Laguna Middle and Hawthorne Elementary and residents of Chumash Village.
Drivers may see a few seconds of added delay at Chumash Village driveways, and the evacuation study projects 7–14 more minutes to clear nearby zones in a worst-case evacuation.
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