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Help Shape the Future of Walking, Biking, and Rolling in Rancho Cordova

Draft Active Transportation Plan Open for Review

Post Date:01/20/2026 3:38 PM

The City of Rancho Cordova continues to work side by side with our community to improve how people walk, bike, and roll throughout our city. After months of listening, learning, and refining ideas together, the interactive draft Active Transportation Plan (ATP) is now open for public comment, marking the final opportunity for the community to share input before the plan is finalized and presented to City Council for adoption.

The ATP is designed to make it safer and more comfortable to get around without a car, while strengthening connections between neighborhoods, schools, parks, shopping areas, and transit. This draft brings the full plan together in one place, showing the recommended sidewalk, bikeway, trail, and crossing improvements that reflect what the community has told us matters most.

Community input has guided the ATP every step of the way. More than 2,200 residents shared feedback during the first two phases of the project through surveys, workshops, pop-up events, and conversations with city staff. We heard clearly that safety is the top priority, along with closing sidewalk gaps, improving bike connections, enhancing lighting and comfort, and building better trails and separated bike lanes.

That feedback directly shaped the draft plan now open for final review. As just a few examples, the ATP recommends 43 priority bikeway projects, adding 31 miles of low-stress bikeways to Rancho Cordova’s existing network, along with 30 prioritized pedestrian and bicycle crossing improvement projects. The current recommended priority projects represent more than $86 million in future investments to improve safety, connectivity, and comfort for people walking, biking, and rolling throughout the city. The draft plan also includes additional policies, programs, and long-term recommendations that work together to support a safer and more accessible transportation system citywide.

The draft plan can be viewed here: https://arcg.is/fzSLW0

Comments can be submitted here: https://forms.microsoft.com/g/XFYjYpttcK

Residents are also encouraged to attend the City Council workshop on January 27 at 5:30 PM, where city staff will present the draft ATP to the City Council and receive feedback. While no formal action will be taken at the workshop, City Council will hear public feedback, and it is an important milestone as the project moves toward adoption.

Your voice has shaped the ATP from the beginning, and this final opportunity ensures it reflects the needs of the people who live, work, and travel in Rancho Cordova every day. Together, we’re building a safer, more connected city, one step, ride, and roll at a time.

To review the draft story map and provide comments, visit the Active Transportation Plan website.

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Press Announcements

Media Contacts

Maria Chacon Kniestedt
Communications & Public Affairs Director
916.851.8791
916.200.6181 (cell)
mkniestedt@cityofranchocordova.org

Samantha Mott
Senior Communications Officer
916.851.8796
916.579.0671 (Cell)
smott@cityofranchocordova.org

Danielle Hale
Communications Officer
916.851.8792
916.809.0465 (cell)
dhale@cityofranchocordova.org

Lauren Burke
Communications Officer
916.851.8723
916.247.2587 (Cell)
lburke@cityofranchocordova.org

City of Rancho Cordova Opens $8.4M Youth Center

On November 3, 2022, the City of Rancho Cordova opened the Rancho Cordova Youth Center, the first youth center in the community. The Youth Center will provide a welcoming, central and safe environment for year-round youth programs, build relationships with local youth, and show local youth how much the community cares about their success and future in Rancho Cordova.

City of Rancho Cordova Breaks Ground on Citywide, Ultra-High-Speed Gigabit Broadband Network

On February 28, 2022, the City of Rancho Cordova, SiFi Networks and GigabitNow announced the launch of Rancho Cordova FiberCity®, a revolutionary infrastructure project to bring a fast, affordable, and reliable all-fiber internet network to every home, business, and institution in Rancho Cordova.

For more information, please contact Danielle Hale at 916.809.0465 or dhale@cityofranchocordova.org.

Mather Veterans Village Dedication Event

On October 12, 2021, Mercy Housing California, Nation’s Finest, the City of Rancho Cordova and the County of Sacramento celebrated the completion of all three phases of Mather Veterans Village, the first permanent supportive housing development for homeless and disabled veterans in the Sacramento region.

These documents are password protected. Please contact Danielle Hale at 916.809.0465 for access.

Crime Drops in Rancho Cordova by 61%

The City of Rancho Cordova is proud to announce that violent crime and property crime combined has decreased by 61% from 2004-2019 when adjusted for population. Since the city incorporated and established the Rancho Cordova Police Department 18 years ago, the city has implemented creative and proactive policing programs that have led to this significant drop.

Media Advisory about Crime Drop in Rancho Cordova
Fact Sheet on Programs
Speaker Bios from Crime Drop Announcement
B-Roll, Photos and Crime Statistics (This is password protected. Please contact Ashley Downton at 916.542.3875 for access.)
News Release: Crime Drops in Rancho Cordova by 61%

Rancho Cordova Breaks Ground on Rio Del Oro Development

Elliott Homes, Inc. and the City of Rancho Cordova are breaking ground on Rio Del Oro, the largest development in the city’s history. Rio Del Oro spans 3,800 acres in Rancho Cordova and could fit Downtown Sacramento in its footprint. The development will feature thousands of new homes, over 7.6 million square feet of commercial, professional and industrial space, one of the largest parks in the region at 130 acres, and the city’s next high school.

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