I think it is wonderful that Council, OSAC and PCS are meeting as a combined body to discuss this important asset for our community and how it should be used going forward.
Given the financial benefit shared in a previous staff documentation, I am in support of consolidating city water operations into one location.
As you may know, city staff reports have also cited how our residential property taxes, based on high property values, kept this city afloat during the last couple of years, as well as the million dollar views of the Wetlands area. Yet, none of these reports mention the landscaping along the Wetlands linear path. In too many places it is bare dirt, weeds the size of bushes, or dead bushes that need to be removed.
The substandard hack, blow, and dead stump maintenance contract along the Wetlands Linear Path is out of place in our city. It has created an eyesore the length of the city. In case you have not recently used the Wetlands linear path, please review the photos of the 500-block of Wetlands Edge Road taken the morning of 10/4/2021. They are representative of the landscaping along the Wetlands Linear path.
I, along with eleven other neighbors, submitted a joint public comment last week regarding this. We would like to see the landscaping along the linear path, on both sides of the trail, rejuvenated. We would like all the dead shrubbery and large weeds removed. We would like the bare dirt covered with mulch, at a minimum. Ideally, there should be a strategy to replace plants as they reach the end of their natural lifespan. And, most definitely, only native plants specific to our region and a wetlands area should be used, keeping in mind the height and visibility requirements for the specific location.
Given that context, with the poor history of maintaining the park resources that we currently have, I am personally against any further development of park resources like the Eco-Center
Instead of emphasizing the continued development of new park resources, which is admittedly more fun and exciting than maintenance, we need to go back to basics and bring all of our parks up to a minimum level. We should have a strategy for ongoing maintenance and replacement of park amenities and landscaping, like the water fountain the city removed awhile back because it was broken.
I think it is wonderful that Council, OSAC and PCS are meeting as a combined body to discuss this important asset for our community and how it should be used going forward.
Given the financial benefit shared in a previous staff documentation, I am in support of consolidating city water operations into one location.
As you may know, city staff reports have also cited how our residential property taxes, based on high property values, kept this city afloat during the last couple of years, as well as the million dollar views of the Wetlands area. Yet, none of these reports mention the landscaping along the Wetlands linear path. In too many places it is bare dirt, weeds the size of bushes, or dead bushes that need to be removed.
The substandard hack, blow, and dead stump maintenance contract along the Wetlands Linear Path is out of place in our city. It has created an eyesore the length of the city. In case you have not recently used the Wetlands linear path, please review the photos of the 500-block of Wetlands Edge Road taken the morning of 10/4/2021. They are representative of the landscaping along the Wetlands Linear path.
I, along with eleven other neighbors, submitted a joint public comment last week regarding this. We would like to see the landscaping along the linear path, on both sides of the trail, rejuvenated. We would like all the dead shrubbery and large weeds removed. We would like the bare dirt covered with mulch, at a minimum. Ideally, there should be a strategy to replace plants as they reach the end of their natural lifespan. And, most definitely, only native plants specific to our region and a wetlands area should be used, keeping in mind the height and visibility requirements for the specific location.
Given that context, with the poor history of maintaining the park resources that we currently have, I am personally against any further development of park resources like the Eco-Center
Instead of emphasizing the continued development of new park resources, which is admittedly more fun and exciting than maintenance, we need to go back to basics and bring all of our parks up to a minimum level. We should have a strategy for ongoing maintenance and replacement of park amenities and landscaping, like the water fountain the city removed awhile back because it was broken.