Solana Beach City Council discusses 2025-26 draft workplan

Solana Beach City Council members reviewed the city’s draft workplan during their April 23 meeting, which outlines many of the top projects and other priorities for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
Five of the top priorities in the workplan include affordable housing and livable communities, transportation and mobility, environmental sustainability and energy, youth, senior and community well being, and general governance and fiscal responsibility.
Council members discussed various traffic safety initiatives and projects.
Solana Beach City Councilmember David Zito said crosswalks with audio assistance would be helpful, as well as efforts to adopt more local traffic safety measures. He mentioned recent traffic safety efforts by the San Diego Association of Governments, including a Vision Zero Action Plan approved last year.
“I just think that adopting what SANDAG is doing is great, I just think in addition to that we need to do something that says we have a commitment around this, whether it’s actually adopting Vision Zero itself or not, but there should be something that says we’re really committed to trying to make this town as safe as we can,” Zito said.
Solana Beach City Manager Alyssa Muto said the city can “explore some different options.”
“We’ll look at how we can incorporate more fully those strategies in the city and if there’s some other action that makes sense,” Muto said.
Promoting safer e-bike riding throughout the city has also been an ongoing priority. The city already has in place an ordinance that allows sheriff’s deputies to refer first-time violators to an online safety course.
The city would like to continue to promote the use of e-bikes in the community but also create a safe environment for pedestrian and vehicular traffic. The continued education of both e-bike riders and the public is paramount to a harmonious community that can both foster clean alternative modes of transportation while protecting the health and safety of the residents.
“The city is also in the middle of its Lomas Santa Fe Corridor Improvement project,” the workplan reads. “Construction is tentatively scheduled to begin early next year, pending necessary approvals from Caltrans. The city has gone through three phases of the project dating back to 2017. The fourth phase includes construction funding and construction.”
The mission statement of the city’s workplan is “to have an efficient and effective City Government that works to balance fiscal sustainability while maintaining environmental sustainability, quality of life and community character.”