The Complete Boulevard
The Boulevard/Mid-City Community Parking District partnered with the City of San Diego in 2013 to write a Smart Growth Incentive Program grant which SANDAG awarded $400k (plus $50k in matching funds from our Mid-City Community Parking District) to create the Complete Boulevard Planning Study. The plan identifies complete street and urban design recommendations along the corridor (between Highland Avenue and 50th Street, encompassing the Little Saigon Cultural District) based on existing and future conditions, adjacent planning efforts, and extensive public participation activities. Those improvements are being implemented as funding becomes available.
The Complete Boulevard Planning Study provided mobility and urban design recommendations that ultimately would catalyze meaningful and transformative investments on El Cajon Boulevard to facilitate a beautiful, vibrant and welcoming area for shopping, eating, neighborhood services, and pedestrian activity for residents and visitors.
El Cajon Boulevard is being re-envisioned as a “complete street,” one that is intended to provide safe access for all users including pedestrians, transit riders, bicyclists, and motorists. This Plan identifies complete street and urban design recommendations along the corridor based on existing and future conditions, adjacent planning efforts, and extensive public participation activities.
More information about the plan:
https://www.sandiego.gov/
Project Updates
Phase 1: The first phase of improvements were installed along El Cajon Boulevard from Highland Avenue to Chamoune Avenue. The project will improve pedestrian access with the construction of raised medians, curb extensions, curb ramps, new sidewalks, bus pad, loop detectors, continental crosswalks, striping, and pavement markings.
Ten new streetlights were installed in the Little Saigon District on El Cajon Boulevard between Highland Ave and 46th St. They were funded by the El Cajon Boulevard Maintenance Assessment District at a total project cost of $405,000. This is part of a long-term effort by The El Cajon Boulevard Improvement Association to install pedestrian-oriented ornamental lighting along the entire district and side streets.
These lights were installed in conjunction with pedestrian improvements from The Complete Boulevard Project. This project re-envisions El Cajon Boulevard as a “complete street,” one that provides safe access for all users including pedestrians, transit riders, bicyclists, and motorists.
A (HAWK) Hybrid Pedestrian Crossing Systems was installed at El Cajon Boulevard and 45th Street. This pedestrian actuated continental crosswalk will make it safer for Hoover High students to cross El Cajon Boulevard.
Other Improvements: In August 2023, construction started on a resurface of approximately 9.5 miles of existing roadways by installing new pavement, ADA compliant curb ramps, sidewalk panels, curb and gutter, pedestrian push buttons and posts, pedestrian barricades, protective railings, and replacing inlet markers, roadway subgrade material for base repairs, traffic striping, and vehicular detector loops for various streets throughout the City.
