U.S. Rep. Mike Levin and local leaders recently announced more than $17 million in federal funding for projects throughout the 49th congressional district, including North County.
Levin said in a statement that the funding “will go towards improving quality-of-life, upgrading our infrastructure, and strengthening public safety.”
Del Mar will receive just under $1 million for removal and replacement of sewer and storm drain infrastructure.
Encinitas will receive $850,000 to install a roundabout at the intersection of Leucadia Boulevard and Hygeia Avenue in a project that will also include pedestrian and bicycle improvements.
Solana Beach will also receive $850,000 for the city’s Lomas Santa Fe Corridor Improvement Project, which includes traffic calming and other improvements for walkers and cyclists.
Another $1.16 million will contribute to Interstate 5 traffic congestion improvements.
“This project would help develop nearly three miles of managed lanes on I-5 between State Route 78 and Harbor Drive in the southbound direction,” Solana Beach Mayor Lesa Heebner, vice chair of the San Diego Association of Governments, said in a statement. “This three-mile managed lane segment is part of a broader $6 billion, 27-mile program of integrated highway, rail, active transportation, and environmental improvements planned and designed as one system – referred to as the North Coast Corridor. 24 miles of the first phase are under construction or complete. This project is the last segment of phase I (design) of the proposed managed lanes network and will make this final segment ‘shovel ready.’”
The San Diego County Sheriff will receive $760,000 for forensic technology that can be used in cold case homicides and sexual assaults.
“The secured funds will allow the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department Regional Crime Laboratory to on-board state-of-the-art Forensic Biology, specifically DNA technology, with next generation sequencing instrumentation,” Sheriff Kelly Martinez said in a statement. “Enhancing forensic DNA analysis testing allows the Crime Lab to leverage new DNA innovation strategies for the region’s unsolved cases such as cold case homicides and sexual assaults, as well as produce profiles that can be used for investigative genetic genealogy.”
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