Mary Callahan, PRESS DEMOCRAT
Plans for an overhaul of Highway 37 between Sears Point and Mare Island to ease congestion and gird the road against the rising waters of San Pablo Bay will be aired at Jan. 14 meeting hosted by Caltrans.
The meeting will be held from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Jan. 14.
Interested people can participate remotely on Zoom, using the link https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85317647303#success.
The hybrid meeting was scheduled to allow for discussion of a newly released draft supplemental environment impact report, now open for public review and comment. It incorporates changes to near-term road improvements, as well as the addition of a major marshland rehabilitation effort.
But there should be room for discussion beyond that, as well.
“The meeting on the 14th is going to mostly focus on the content of the draft supplemental EIR,” said Skylar Nguyen, senior environmental scientist with Caltrans. “That’s the focus, and that’s what we are presenting on, but we would be trying to answer as many questions as we can.”
The newly released environmental document relays in detail plans to restore and reinvigorate about 1,200 acres in and around what’s called the Strip Marsh East, a degraded area of tidal salt marsh west of Mare Island on the north shore of San Pablo Bay. The marsh provides habitat to multiple protected species and offers the chance for a nature-based buffer against sea level rise and flooding along about 3.5 miles of highway.
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