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File #: 205690    Version: 1
Type: Order Status: Approved
File created: 4/23/2018 In control: City Council
On agenda: 4/26/2018 Final action: 11/26/2019
Enactment date: 4/26/2018 Enactment #: 205690
Title: That the Director of SPCD report to this Board on using trees in planters on streets instead of bump outs as a low-cost way to calm traffic and to place trees on streets where the sidewalks are too narrow to accommodate street trees.
Sponsors: Mark Niedergang, and the Entire Board

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That the Director of SPCD report to this Board on using trees in planters on streets instead of bump outs as a low-cost way to calm traffic and to place trees on streets where the sidewalks are too narrow to accommodate street trees.

 

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That the Executive Director of the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development (Transportation & Infrastructure) report to this Board on the possibility of using trees in planters on streets instead of bump outs as a low-cost way to calm traffic and also as a way of planting trees on streets where the sidewalks are too narrow to accommodate street trees.