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Caldwell Avenue Widening Project Traffic and Construction Impacts: Receive a staff presentation outlining the construction phases of work, traffic detours, closures and resident impacts for the Caldwell Avenue Widening Project from Santa Fe Street to Lovers Lane.
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Deadline for Action: 5/19/2025
Submitting Department: Community Development
Contact Name and Phone Number:
Eric Bons, Senior Civil Engineer, eric.bons@visalia.city, 713-4350
Chris Crawford, City Engineer, chris.crawford@visalia.city, 713-4331
Jason Huckleberry, Engineering and Building Department Director, Jason.huckleberry@visalia.city, 713-4495
Department Recommendation:
Staff recommends that the City Council accept the construction phasing plan and staff presentation on the construction impacts, traffic detours, street closures and resident impacts associated with the Caldwell Avenue Widening Project from Santa Fe Street to Lovers Lane.
Background Discussion:
The Caldwell Avenue Widening Project started on May 5, 2025. The current work mostly involves minor traffic impacts for work outside of the travel lanes. The project, from Santa Fe Street to Lovers Lane, will widen Caldwell Avenue from 2-lanes to 4-lanes with a raised center median, curb, gutter, storm drain system, sanitary sewer main extension, sidewalk, and a multi-use pathway. The County of Tulare also has a project for Caldwell Avenue (Ave. 280) from Lovers Lane to S. Virginia Avenue widening from 2-lanes to 4-lanes with construction anticipated to begin in the summer of 2026. The widening of Caldwell Avenue within the City of Visalia and the County of Tulare is part of a regional corridor enhancement project from Highway 99 to the City of Exeter to ease congestion along this corridor.
The roadway improvements will be a complete replacement of the roadway structural section which adds complexity to the project at major intersections when combined with large traffic volumes. Constructi...
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