A long-discussed multi-modal path stretching through Santa Ynez Valley from Buellton through Solvang and beyond Highway 246 got a nudge Monday when the Solvang council agreed to put $30,000 toward the project’s $1.2 million planning and design phase.

Other funding already secured for the project includes a $425,000 state grant secured by and for Buellton’s segment, a $383,016 Caltrans grant secured by the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, and a cash contribution of $376,000 from the County of Santa Barbara.

The Chumash also secured $1.4 million in federal Active Transportation Infrastructure Implementation funding.

“However the changing priorities of (U.S. Department of Transportation) have put that grant in limbo, and we’re not quite sure what’s going to happen. We have a meeting wit

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