Draft Active Transportation Plan Now Available for Public Review!
Since spring 2023, the City of Fremont has been developing its first Active Transportation Plan (ATP). What is “active transportation?” It’s walking to your local park, school, or transit stop. It’s bicycling to your favorite trail or café. It’s rolling in a wheelchair or on a scooter to visit friends. It’s even just taking a neighborhood stroll for fresh air and exercise. Being able to walk, bike, and roll to the places you visit in your community is part of what makes Fremont a happy city.
In developing the ATP, the project team embarked on an extensive community engagement process to hear from residents about where they walk and bike and how we can improve their experience. The team conducted neighborhood walks and bike rides with councilmembers, tabled at various farmers markets and special events, presented at various boards and commissions, and met with community-based organizations that represent disadvantaged communities that rely on walking, biking, and transit as a primary mode of transportation.
The community's feedback helped inform the ATP, a five-year strategic plan that identifies existing sidewalk and bikeway deficiencies that make it challenging to walk and bike in the community, develops a vision for the citywide Active Transportation network, and prioritizes projects and programs important to the community that will encourage and promote active transportation use for all ages and abilities.
The draft ATP is now available for public review:
Community members can submit their comments on the draft ATP through the comment submittal tool, which is also located below under the “Public Comments” tab.
Community members are also able to comment on the planned Active Transportation network through the interactive map tool, which is also located below under the "Interactive Map" tab. To add comments to the map, an email address and screen name must be provided.
The last day for the submittal of public comments is scheduled for March 31, 2025.
Next Steps
Over the next two months, the City will present the draft ATP to various City Commissions and stakeholder groups for final review and comments, starting with the City’s Mobility Commission in March 2025. The draft ATP is tentatively scheduled to be presented to the City’s Planning Commission for General Plan conformance review in April 2025. The final ATP document is scheduled to be reviewed and adopted by the Fremont City Council in May 2025.
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