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Council reviews Complete Streets proposals for South Broadway, hears safety and parking concerns
Summary
City staff and community volunteers presented short‑, medium‑ and long‑term Complete Streets ideas for South Broadway — from lowering the speed limit and parklets to lane narrowing, pedestrian refuges and expanded tree canopy — while councilors pressed for traffic and parking studies and warned against shifting traffic into neighborhoods.
City staff and volunteer members of the Complete Streets strategy group outlined a set of short‑, medium‑ and long‑term projects intended to make South Broadway safer and more walkable. City Capital Projects Engineer Devin Keener and community member Noah Kaplan presented measures that ranged from low‑cost pilot actions — lowering the posted speed limit and installing parklets in front of businesses — to medium‑term lane narrowing and pedestrian refuge islands and long‑term wider sidewalks and expanded tree canopy.
The group said the ideas respond to community survey results showing…
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