Green DOT Transportation Solutions was contracted by the Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria to prepare a Hazard Mitigation Plan for the Tribe. The Tribe faces physical, technological, and anthropogenic hazards including, but not limited to, severe weather, floods, wildland fires, communication failures, droughts, earthquakes, fishing losses, hazardous material spills, mud landslides, and electric power outages. Adopting a Hazard Mitigation Plan containing an empirical evaluation of these hazards will allow for effective prioritization of mitigation projects to reduce risk and will qualify the Tribe for funding sources available to mitigate these hazards. Having an adopted Hazard Mitigation Plan is a requirement for the Mechoopda Tribe to be eligible for FEMA funding.

This Plan is conducting a comprehensive stakeholder and community outreach campaign to identify what the Mechoopda community believes are the biggest threats to the Tribe, Tribal assets, and what the community wants to see for mitigation measures. Many community members have been personally affected by wildfire, electrical outages, and pandemic health conditions. The Hazard Mitigation Plan will prepare the Tribe and Tribal members for protection, preparation, and resilience against unpredictable natural hazards and disaster events.

The Green DOT team also wrote the Hazard Mitigation Grant, securing the $150,000 necessary to develop this essential Tribal Plan. The Final Mechoopda Hazard Mitigation Plan is scheduled for completion and adoption by December 2021.

Green DOT was contracted by the Calaveras Council of Governments as the prime consultant to develop the San Andreas Pope Street Class I Facility and Safe Routes Gap Fill Plan with support from subconsultant GHD providing engineering services. The Pope Street Gap Fill Plan plans for safe bicycle and pedestrian connections from San Andreas Elementary School to historic central residential neighborhoods in San Andreas, the County Government Center, and existing bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. The Pope Street Gap Fill Plan prepped the project for competitive funding programs, such as the Active Transportation Program (ATP), and will ultimately improve and encourage bicycling and pedestrian opportunities in the San Andreas core by creating safer, more comfortable and convenient routes for non-motorized modes.  The Plan, which was initiated in March 2019, studied the feasibility of a Class I connection traversing San Andreas from the elementary school on the west side of town to the Government Center on the east side of town and corridor improvements connecting the north side of town to State Route 49. The final Plan was adopted in August 2020.

Green DOT worked with the Shasta Regional Transportation Agency (Shasta RTA) and local partners to identify competitive projects in the region that would move communities toward the goals of the areas Regional Transportation Plan and Sustainable Communities Strategy.  The Green DOT team worked with local jurisdictions, private-sector developers and other relevant stakeholders in addition to the Shasta RTA.  Green DOT’s specific role on this grant-writing team was to act as the transportation expert in identifying competitive projects and manage all aspects of this robust application development process.  In 2015 our project team, in association with the City of Redding and Shasta RTA, prepared 3 major grant applications for over $110 million in state and federal grants. The programs involved include the Strategic Growth Council Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities program (AHSC), the Federal Highway Administration FASTLANE program, and the Caltrans administered Transit and Intercity Rail Program. The City of Redding was awarded the AHSC grant in October 2016 with $20 million of Cap and Trade money from the Strategic Growth Council, the largest grant amount awarded though this program to date. This project will transform downtown Redding into a more livable community.

Green DOT worked with the Karuk Tribe to develop, fund, and implement the Red Cap Road Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvement Project. Green DOT owner Jeff Schwein prepared the Middle Klamath River Community Transportation Plan with grant funding from the Caltrans planning grant program. During this project, the Red Cap Road Bicycle and Pedestrian project was identified as a priority project connecting tribal housing and others to the critical needs and community core of Orleans in Humboldt County. Following up on the identification and conceptual design, Green DOT worked with the Humboldt County Association of Governments and the County of Humboldt to develop a funding strategy. We were instrumental in programming $460K in the 2012 STIP to get the project moving forward. Once the environmental and design work was complete, Green DOT prepared a grant application for the Federal Highway Administrations Tribal Transportation Safety Program (TTSP) and was awarded the largest grant in the country of $872K. This completed the final piece of a cooperatively funded $2.5 million bicycle and pedestrian project combined with a bridge replacement project to provide access and encouragement for biking and walking in this disadvantaged community. In 2015, Construction was completed.

Green DOT Transportation Solutions prepared the 2015 Alpine County Regional Transportation Plan (RTP). The 2015 RTP improved upon past efforts and includes updated language for the 2010 RTP California Transportation Commission Guidelines and the most recent Federal Highway Bill, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century which was adopted since the last RTP update. This RTP also improved upon past performance measures. The 2010 RTP set some tangible baselines that worked in a rural context and this effort is measuring performance since 2010. To these ends, Green DOT evaluated the value of the performance measures and improved upon them. This included hybrid performance measures developed from the Caltrans Performance Measures for Rural Transportation Systems Guidebook (2006) and the SANDAG Statewide Performance Monitoring Indicators for Transportation Planning (2013) reports. The Alpine RTP was adopted in December 2015.