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El Cajon receives SANDAG grants to improve streetscapes, revamp Parkway Plaza and add housing

Photo by Karen Pearlman
 
East County News Service
 
Sept. 4, 2025 (El Cajon) – El Cajon has been given a Notice of Intent to be awarded three grants through the San Diego Association of Governments TransNet Smart Growth Incentive Program.
 
The city is expecting to receive one engineering grant and two planning grants as part of SANDAG’s Cycle 6 Call for Projects.
 
The engineering grant for $2.7 million will go to the second phase of the city’s $3 million El Cajon Boulevard Streetscape. That project will complete the El Cajon Boulevard corridor by adding bikeways, sidewalks, pedestrian furnishings and landscaping to strengthen mobility connections.

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WALDRON BILL WOULD REQUIRE VOTERS’ APPROVAL FOR CHANGES TO TRANSNET FUNDING ALLOCATION

By Miriam Raftery
 
September 17, 2019 (Escondido) – For months, officials in East County and North County have assailed as “highway robbery” a plan announced by the San Diego Regional Association of Governments (SANDAG)  to cancel some highway projects and instead, spend TransNet extension funds approved by voters in 2004 on transit projects such as high-speed rail and shared electric vehicles instead.

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