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Civic issues
Topics getting the most attention in Lafayette public meetings, ranked by how frequently they come up.
Driverless shuttle on Mt. Diablo Boulevard
Councilmember Wotherspoon floated adding an autonomous circulator shuttle to the city's transportation wish list — a driverless vehicle shuttling shoppers and visitors up and down Mt. Diablo so people stop circling parking lots. The council loved the idea, added it to the county project list as a placeholder, and wants to pitch Lafayette as a pilot site to vendors.
County transportation funding priorities: Aqueduct Pathway and Pleasant Hill Road
Lafayette is positioning two big projects — the regional Aqueduct Pathway for bikes and pedestrians, and a Pleasant Hill Road corridor study including the Highway 24 interchange — for possible named-project funding as the county writes its next transportation expenditure plan and eyes a 2028 ballot measure. Getting named now matters because Measure J spending is tightly tied to what voters approve.