May is Bike Month!  On Thursday, May 13^th, Bike to Work Day will kick off in Eureka at the Eureka Co-op’s “Morning Energizer Station,” (4^th and B Street ) where bicyclists wearing helmets can roll in from 6

Last Saturday a group of volunteers converged at Cooper Gulch Park in Eureka to work on a trail connecting the park with a nearby neighborhood.

A collaborative effort between the Federal Highway Administration, Caltrans and stakeholders including Green Wheels is now complete and should provide some ideas for how to improve bike and pedestrian safety on Broadway, one of the most dangerous roads for pedestrians in Humboldt County.  Some of the ideas generated from this plan include addition of midblock crossings, sidewalk improvements and addition of bicycle facilities.  This study should inform future work Caltrans does on this facility.

On Tuesday evening, Eureka will receive a report from Glen Campora, Senior Policy Advisor for California Department of Housing and Community Development, on the Regional Housing Needs Allocation process under way at HCAOG.  The RHNA process took a step backward in December, and is now starting up again with greater opportunity for public input.  Eureka is a critical player in the process, since it has the largest jobs-housing imbalance in the county (i.e. lots of jobs and not enough housing).  This will take place the night before the first critical HCAOG RHNA committee meeting on Wednesday.  The city council meeting starts at 6:30 pm at Eureka City Hall.  Here's a link to the agenda.