Marin Avenue Reconfiguration Expanded Initial Study/Negative Declaration

Cities of Albany and Berkeley

DC&E prepared an expanded Initial Study and Negative Declaration for the reconfiguration of Marin Avenue east of San Pablo Avenue in the cities of Albany and Berkeley. The reconfiguration, which was intended to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety and access without significant reduction in vehicular level of service, consisted of restriping Marin Avenue within the existing roadway to reduce the number of travel lanes from two to one per direction, with the addition of a center left-turn lane and two bicycle lanes. Since the potential project impacts were mainly associated with changes in noise and traffic, DC&E worked with the cities to identify appropriate thresholds to apply when monitoring traffic and noise impacts after project implementation.