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We are busy maintaining infrastructure, improving traffic flow and enhancing neighborhood quality of life through a variety of projects happening around town. Here are some highlights of projects that have been planned or are currently in the design process.
Neighborhood Quality of Life and Safety
Carlsbad Village lighting improvements
Streets, Traffic and Mobility
Barrio traffic calming
Kelly and Park
Safe Routes to School
South Carlsbad coastline
Tamarack area coastal improvements
Terramar area coastal improvements
Tyler Street
Valley and Magnolia
Parks
Robertson Ranch Park
Veterans Memorial Park
Wastewater
Poinsettia Lane sewer improvements
City Buildings
5-year Project Plan
The city's Capital Improvements Program maps out major projects and how they will be funded. Each year, the City Council approves this plan along with the city budget. See project map.
Project updates
More parking coming to the Barrio
Additional parking is coming to the Barrio under a plan the City Council approved Tuesday. Here’s what you need to know:
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Four parking spaces will be added by converting five existing parallel spaces to perpendicular parking on Chestnut Avenue east of Madison Street, in front of Pine Avenue Community Park. This will increase the total number of spaces along that stretch from five to nine, while maintaining existing trees.
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A broader parking study will move forward to explore converting parallel parking spaces to diagonal parking on wider streets, including Madison Street, Pine Avenue and Palm Avenue, to increase overall parking availability in the Barrio.
This work is in addition to ongoing parking evaluation efforts that have resulted in 44 additional parking spaces in the Village and Barrio, with 22 added in the Barrio since January.
Some ways to add parking included restriping, sign removal or repainting red curbs that no longer need to be red (think of a red curb near a driveway that is no longer being used). Below is a video of some of that work taking place in the Village earlier this year.
Staff will continue to look at additional ways to add more on-street parking in the Village and Barrio.
More information
Dec. 9, 2025 City Council staff report