On September 18, 2018, Assemblymember Eloise Gómez Reyes of the 47th District announced to the Colton City Council that the California Natural Resources Agency approved grant funds for the creation of a “Fireman’s Walk Paseo” in Downtown Colton.
The City of Colton was awarded a $638,100 California Sustainable Communities Planning Grant from the State of California Strategic Growth Council for the downtown development.
During the meeting, Assemblymember Reyes greeted the council and mentioned how it is always a pleasure to be back in her hometown.
“I asked my city of Colton, I said, what are the needs of the community? Last year, it was a firetruck and we delivered,” Reyes said.
The walkway will become a city attraction and a place that highlights Colton’s culture and history as well an area where all members of the community can come to together.
Part of Colton’s development plan would create a pedestrian walkway through central Colton and will include implementation opportunities for entry gateways and monuments, wall treatments, filtered shade, low-water-use landscape. Also, opportunities for public art, focal points and lights and sight furnishings.
The Assemblymember explained to the council how there was little faith from the city last year when she asked about the needs of the community, but after being able to get a new firetruck, she thinks there was more faith this time.
“There were a few things that you had mentioned and that you submitted and I’m just really pleased that the Fireman’s Paseo did receive the funding,” Reyes said.
Mayor Richard A. DeLaRosa thanked the Assemblymember for all the work she did in order to receive the grant.
“Since she’s become our representative of Colton, we have been able to improve our safety and fire [department] and now we’re improving our aesthetics, our downtown look, and it’s because she is a champion for her cities that she represents. Thank God you were born in Colton,” DeLaRosa said.