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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />• �c r <br />CITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Receive and file. <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />ITAW:2001TAI 7 <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 1" Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 21 Reading <br />Implementing Resolution <br />Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />This report is intended to provide the City Council with the details and background on staff's <br />efforts to promote pedestrian safety and provide improved mobility to our community, while also <br />respecting the great progress made by the City on expanding our urban forest. <br />The City recently engaged a consultant to evaluate sidewalk conditions citywide, and identify <br />missing sidewalks and noncompliant accessibility ramps, The information collected and evaluated <br />includes an inventory and map of the locations in a Geographic Information System (GIs) format <br />for integration of these amenities with other city infrastructure. These data will be augmented by <br />a separate GIS Inventory and mapping of all city street trees, which is being conducted by the <br />City's tree maintenance contractor, <br />Prior to these Inventory efforts, staff had been grappling with locations in the city which have <br />experienced sidewalk damage caused by city parkway trees. One of the locations is on Cabrillo <br />Park Drive between 15th and 17th Streets. This area Is zoned "commercial' and has eight <br />Ilquidembar trees along the east aide of the street. The sidewalk adjacent to these trees is in very <br />poor condition, Moreover, the adjacent businesses generate a lot of pedestrian use. One such <br />agency Is Catholic Charities whose visitors include many elderly and handicapped pedestrians. <br />The map on Exhibit 1 shows the location of the subject trees on Cabrillo Park Drive, and the <br />picture on Exhibit 2 provides the typical conditions adjacent to these eight trees. <br />Faced with the challenge of preserving the health of these urban trees and providing a safe <br />pedestrian walkway, staff presented a recommendation to the Environmental & Transportation <br />Advisory Committee to replace four of the liquidamber trees with sycamore trees. The remaining <br />19D -1 <br />