RAC looks into Mulberry Ave. fixes

A pilot project for street improvements got the tentative go-ahead last week from the Springs Redevelopment Advisory Committee.
“We would be more than glad to be the poster child for neighborhood improvements,” Mulberry Avenue resident Jan Mosgofian told the committee at its May 1 meeting.
The committee, which acts as a funding go-between for Springs residents and the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors, agreed in concept to a plan that could match redevelopment funds with private donations or other equities – and use that partnership as an example for other communities.
“I don’t think their [Mulberry Avenue’s] situation is all that different from other streets in the Springs area,” committee member Stephen Cox said, listing such local problems as street erosion and degradation and poor storm drainage.
Noting the county’s insistence that its current General Fund can’t spare the cash for street improvements, Cox said, “I think that’s a reasonable answer, but it doesn’t address the problem.”
Kathleen Kane, director of the Community Development Commission, faced with a long list of questions about project criteria, said she couldn’t immediately address all of them. “I have a lot of answers,” she said, but added that the county public works department would first need to make an assessment. CDC Redevelopment Manager Boris Sztorch said a staff report would be ready for the agency’s June 5 meeting.