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COMPLETING the BAY TRAIL Getting There 2008 accomplishments RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA City of Richmond (City): Completed Bay Trail 1 Boat Ramp Street access to Santa Fe Channel off Cutting Blvd Point Pinole Planned Bay Trail Regional 2 City & Chevron: Chevron agrees to provide trail easement Shoreline 3 City & Bottoms Family Trust: trail easement conveyed to City Sincere Design: 4 CA Trails & Greenways Website Award for TRAC’s website 13 Port of Richmond: 5 Shipyard 3 trail grants & construction documents Richmond Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA): 6 Hall Av. & Harbour Way from Hall Av. to Hoffman Blvd. construction documents 14 East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) 7 & West County Wastewater District: Wildcat to San Pablo Creek & Landfill construction documents Point 15 San Pablo Point Richmond Gateway Foundation, Inc.: Point San Pablo 8 Trainmaster building plaza trail Yacht Harbor 10 to be completed in 2009 12 San Pablo Creek (repeated #s correspond to same locations in the previous section) Port of Richmond & Auto Warehousing Co.: 15 7 5 2.4-mile Shipyard 3 Bay Trail 18 W at Cr ildc eek Richmond CRA: 6 Hall Av. & Harbour Way from Hall Av. to Hoffman Blvd. Point Molate EBRPD & West County Wastewater District: 17 7 Wildcat to San Pablo Creek & Landfill Point Molate Beach Park Point Richmond Gateway Foundation, Inc.: 8 west from Trainmaster building plaza Red Rock Marina Orton Development Inc.: Castro Point 18 9 Ford building craneway waterfront Richmond/San Rafael Bridge 2 & 16 Republic Services Inc: 10 complete 3-mile West County Landfill loop Chevron Long Wharf 8 Richmond Greenway NPS, EBRPD, Richmond Convention & Visitors Bureau & TRAC: 23 11 Ferry Point Loop Trail Guide 1 Cypress Point Pt. San Pablo Yacht Harbor: Keller Beach 12 shoreline and breakwaters Miller Knox Regional Planning & DESIGN Shoreline 6 Priorities 2009 21 11 13 EBRPD: Atlas Road entry to Point Pinole Regional Shoreline Ferry Point EBRPD: Point Pinole Regional Shoreline 9 Marina 14 1720 Bay to Richmond Parkway at Goodrick Ave Brickyard 5 Cove Sheridan Pt Park Richmond Development Co. & JHS Properties: Lucretia Vincent Park Point Potrero Edwards 15 Goodrick Ave to Parkway Park City, ABAG & Chevron: 3 & 22 Pt Richmond to Richmond/San Rafael Bridge 16 Brooks Island Regional Preserve Point Isabel Upstream Point Molate LLC: trails and parks at Point Molate Regional 17 Shoreline 19 EBRPD, City & Chevron: 18 Pt. Molate links with I-580 & Pt. San Pablo Yacht Harbor 19 Kohl’s Dept. Store: Rydin Rd to Central Av. North 20 Richmond CRA: Dornan Drive to Brickyard Landing 21 EBRPD: Keller Beach to Ferry Pt. 22 City: Brickyard Cove Rd. to Point Potrero 18 23 City: Pt. Richmond Gateway to Ferry Point tunnel TRAC 24 City: Update General Plan commitments to Bay Trail Trails for Richmond Action Committee new year Report This report was issued in January 2009 by TRAC, the Trails for Richmond Action Committee. TRAC’s mission is to "Complete the San Francisco Bay Trail in Richmond ..." Richmond has 25 miles of San Francisco Bay Trail completed -- more than any other city on this planned 500-mile hiking and biking trail encircling San Francisco and San Pablo Bays. & Tarrafirma Graphics. Richmond’s Bay Trail now links City, Regional, State and National shoreline parks -- Point Isabel Regional Getting there Shoreline, Eastshore State Park, four Marina Bay parks, Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Thanks for financial support of this report goes to Park and Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline, as well as the Association of Bay Area Governments Bay Trail Project Richmond Greenway and Wildcat Creek Regional Trail. It The City of Richmond, Richmond Convention & Visitors Bureau, also connects neighborhoods with the shoreline and with each other, including Richmond Annex, Marina Bay, Point Richmond, Atchison Village, Iron Triangle and North Richmond. Ceremonies in 2008 celebrated opening of the City’s Boat Ramp Street shoreline access on Cutting Blvd., as well as the Bay Trail segment at the Trainmaster’s building plaza in Point Richmond. The following major advances were made in 2008 toward completing the Bay Trail in Richmond: • Port of Richmond received $639,000 in grants and prepared construction documents for Shipyard 3 Bay Trail from Canal Blvd. to Point Potrero • Auto Warehousing Co. agreed to incorporate Bay Trail improvements in Honda Port of Entry Project. • East Bay Regional Park District prepared construction documents for trail from Wildcat Creek to San Pablo Creek & West County Landfill loop trail. • Richmond Community Redevelopment Agency prepared construction documents for bike lanes on Hall Av. & Harbour Way South from Hall Av. to Hoffman Blvd. • Bottoms Family Trust conveyed shoreline easement to City for trail linking Brickyard Cove Rd. to Point Potrero Marine Terminal • Chevron agreed to convey easement to City for trail TO: connecting Point Richmond with existing trail under Richmond/San Rafael Bridge. • Point Richmond Gateway Foundation received $17,600 grant to extend trail toward Point Richmond Historic District core. TRAC expects prior groundwork will result in construction of five to six miles of new Bay Trail in 2009! This wiil be a huge chunk of the 16 miles of San Francisco Bay Trail gaps remaining in Richmond. The attached map shows trail to be completed in 2009 and also describes planning and design priorities. The major challenges remaining are to connect Point Pinole Regional Shoreline and the Point San Pablo Peninsula with the 25 miles of Bay Trail already completed in Richmond. TRAC appreciates your continuing support. TRAC Steering Committee: Donald Bastin, Bruce Beyaert, Bruce Brubaker, Jay Corey, Whitney Dotson, Jerry Rasmussen & Nancy Strauch Richmond, CA 94801 CA Richmond, 73 Belvedere Ave Belvedere 73 Action Committee Action You may join the Richmond Bay Trail Network at no cost and Richmond for Trails receive periodic updates by emailing [email protected]. THE BAY TRAIL IN RICHMONDFor more2009 information, see http://www.pointrichmond.com/baytrail/ and TRAC http://www.explorerichmondca.com/baytrail.ht Action Committee for Richmond Trails.