The city of Auburn is on Sound Transit’s short list for grants that would help cover the costs of two big projects of direct benefit to the city.

Here are the potential grant awards and what Auburn residents would get:

Project 1: $1.65 million in design and construction funds to add a northbound, left-turn movement and a northbound-southbound crosswalk at the 3rd Street Northeast intersection with Auburn Avenue. This project likewise aims to realign the intersection of 4th Street Northeast with Auburn Way North to eliminate the split phase operation signal, thus improving circulation and access.

Project 2: $315,000 to improve non-motorized access to transit route No. 497 in Lakeland Hills by building a pedestrian connection from the Sunset Park parking lot to the public sidewalk along 69th Street Southeast and to complete Americans with Disability Act improvements at an existing stop along Lakeland Hills Way.

This project likewise calls for the design and addition of a new rapid flashing beacon (RFB) south of the intersection with 57th Drive Southeast – at the existing trail crossing – and to install new bus stops there.

What’s more, it proposes to add a second RFB at or near the intersection with 62nd Drive Southeast, to include a potential route change west of Mill Pond Drive that would shift the route from Lakeland Hills Way to Mill Pond Drive Southeast and 47th Street Southeast.

The route change is subject to approval from Pierce Transit as it would create bus stops along the new route and potentially add a third RFB either along the new or existing route west of Mill Pond Drive Southeast.

To find out what the public thinks, the transit agency on Friday launched an online open house about the grants and the two projects as follows: systemaccessfund.infocommunity.org.