Six Santa Cruz County community projects will receive $5.5 million in federal funding, U.S. Rep. Jimmy Panetta announced.
The Monterey Democrat said Friday he secured the spending for initiatives to expanded affordable housing, help build a “downtown” urban core in Scotts Valley, reinforce a local pipeline, revitalize a water system, provide child care to families and stabilize a beachfront bluff.
- $1.67 million for the Cabrillo College Child Care Center to expand services to support low-income students.
- $1 million for the Scotts Valley Town Center to acquire 8.15 acres of vacant land to be part of a mixed-use “downtown” urban core, including affordable housing.
- $960,000 for the City of Santa Cruz to relocate a portion of the Newell Creek water pipeline in rural Ben Lomond to geologically stable ground.
- $960,000 to consolidate two small mutual water companies with the San Lorenzo Valley Water District.
- $500,000 for Natural Bridges Apartments Affordable Housing Project to support a 20-unit single-room occupancy apartment building for low-income people.
- $450,000 to stabilize the failing coastal bluffs along Capitola’s Cliff Drive.