Paradise Town Council may act on 8 items
Set to review long term recovery plan update draft; Honey Run Road also to be discussed
The Paradise Town Council is expected to make decisions on eight action items on Tuesday night when it meets in the Town Council Chambers beginning at 6 p.m.
The first action the council will address is a review of draft long term recovery plan update which was prepared by Urban Design Associates, which led the original drafting of the document.
The town staff reached out to UDA in October 2021 to draft an update to the 2019 Long Term Community Recovery Plan to document the progress made to date, and to ask the community for any guidance on changes needed three years into the recovery.
The $110,000 project to update the recovery plan was paid for with money from North Valley Community Foundation ($25,000), Feather River Foundation ($25,000) while the town paid $60,000.
The new report says that it found that priorities have shifted from “immediate needs to long-term visions to maintain a resilient community.”
After the council hears the update, it will consider introducing an ordinance adopting 2022 California Building Code Standards Title 24, parts 1- 6 and 8-12 with Paradise amendments.
If the town does not do so, the state building codes will become town law without any town modifications.
After the town does that, it will discuss what to do with Honey Run Road within the town limits, which has been closed since the Camp Fire in 2018. The Butte County portion of Honey Run Road has been opened because it did not suffer the same kind of fire damage the paradise portion of the road did.
The town looked at four possibilities for the road:
• A two-way roadway that would cost $6.1 million to build and had stakeholder support
• One-way southbound only roadway with a $4.4 million price tag
• Convert the road into an emergency road only which would also cost $4.4 million.
• Prohibit motor vehicle traffic on the road within the town limits and a price tag of $1.9 million
However, the only one of those four options that had stakeholder support was maintaining it as a two-way roadway.
According to the agenda, other stakeholders inside and outside of the town limits (county residents, Butte County Public Works, Cal Fire-Butte County and the Paradise Police Department) did not support the alternatives to a two-way road.
After the discussion, the town could pass a resolution expressing its desire to reopen the road as the historical community route.
The town may also approve awarding the sidewalk infill project to a Live Oak company called all American construction. That contract would be worth nearly $457,000 with a contingency that expenditures are not to exceed 25% of the bid.
The town could also authorize and approve a grant agreement to receive funding from the 2018 CDBG-DR Infrastructure Program.
The council also could approve a requested budget adjustments for various repairs and improvements for town hall, the Paradise Police Department and Cal Fire-Butte County Station 81.