Consulting Firm Search Underway

In June, the City of Carlsbad approved a portion of the necessary funding for the traffic calming project, enough to begin the design phase.

With that in place, the search process is now underway to find a consulting firm who will assist the City in working with the Donna Drive and Basswood Neighbors.

Jim Murray, the Carlsbad City traffic engineer assigned to our project, explained recently that soon we will need to create a neighborhood design committee, neighbors who represent the entire span of Donna and Basswood.

UPDATE (Nov. 17, 2008) The consulting firm has submitted a second proposal and there is a scope and fee agreement yet to be agreed upon with the city. Hopefully the details will be worked out and we can soon meet with the consulting firm as a neighborhood. Updates will be forwarded to you as soon as we receive them.

This committee will work directly with the consulting firm and be charged with evaluating the designs, reporting to their immediate neighbors, and voting on final plans.

Once the traffic calming consulting firm is hired our neighborhood committee will begin the design and evaluation process. We will keep you posted about this!