Allison Avenue Complete Street

City of La Mesa

La Mesa, CA


Kimley-Horn partnered with the City of La Mesa to revitalize Allison Avenue. This project reduced the overall width of Allison Avenue to provide traffic calming and has introduced a variety of low impact development techniques. The design includes bulb-outs at each corner with expanded pedestrian ramps, mid-block pedestrian crossings, angled parking, decorative and wider sidewalks, decorative street furnishings, improved landscape areas, a series of bioswales to provide infiltration and biofiltration, pervious concrete to capture the low-flow runoff in specific areas, bus turnouts and improved shelters, and an overall revised experience for multimodal transportation to have a strong connection from the City Hall area to downtown. The Allison Avenue project received WalkSanDiego’s 2011 Golden Footprint Complete Streets Award.