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The Danville Town Council is set to review a presentation from the town’s development services manager Diane Friedman at Tuesday’s meeting, which will provide updates and room for discussion on a number of major projects under the department’s jurisdiction.
Development services comprises the town’s building, code enforcement, engineering, planning, and transportation divisions, with the upcoming presentation set to provide information on each division’s recent accomplishments and ongoing work.Â
For its part, the building division has reviewed 2,731 building permit applications over the past fiscal year, as well as conducting 9,282 building inspections, serving approximately 64 walk-in customers per week and contending with 326 code enforcement cases.
All of that has been as multiple major housing projects have gotten underway with the division’s oversight, set to add more than 300 units to the town’s housing inventory. The largest of these is The Orchard, a 124-unit townhouse project by Trumark Homes with eight model units currently under building review.
Highlights from the engineering division include the near-completion of renovations to the playground at Diablo Vista Park, which are set to be complete in November – minus a previously anticipated skate park that was set to be part of those renovations.
Another major project set to be constructed next year is a town-operated studio and maker space within a pavilion at the Town Green that is set to replace the existing bandstand. The design phase for the project has been completed, with construction set to kick off next summer.
In addition to the new housing projects currently under construction and being overseen by the building division, a number of other new housing projects are currently under review by the planning division, making up potentially more than 300 additional housing units. Proposals are also under review for an expansion of facilities at Community Presbyterian Church and a new Wood Ranch Event Center.
The transportation division is gearing up for this year’s Street Smarts Community Bike Festival, which will focus heavily on e-bike classification, regulation, and safety. Meanwhile, work has been completed on a townwide bicycle facilities improvement program, including high-visibility bike lanes at four different corridors, as well as video detection equipment.
Further down the road, the transportation division is also set to see the completion of the town’s traffic signal modernization project, which is set to ultimately result in advanced video detection and monitoring software at 45 out of Danville’s 56 intersections.
The Danville Town Council is set to meet at 5 p.m. Tuesday (Oct. 7). More information is available here.
In other business
* Police Chief Thomas Rossberg is set to provide a quarterly update from his department.
* The council is set to issue a proclamation recognizing October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
