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City staff recommend Walla Walla maintain Pine Street planter strips, estimate $10,000 annual cost
Summary
City staff presented a conceptual redesign of Pine Street planter strips at the Feb. 10 work session, proposing irrigated street trees and city maintenance of the non‑swale (green) areas; staff estimated about 50 new trees, roughly 40 adjacent property owners and $10,000 per year to maintain the green strips, and said an ordinance will be brought
Walla Walla — City staff presented conceptual plans for Pine Street planter strips and recommended the city assume maintenance responsibility for certain non‑stormwater planting strips at a Walla Walla City Council work session on Monday, Feb. 10.
Kai (city staff) said the purple areas on the project illustrations are intended as stormwater swales and would be paid for and maintained through the stormwater utility, while the green areas are non‑swale planter strips that staff recommended the city maintain. "The purple areas are intended to be stormwater swales, where they will collect runoff from the roadway, help treat and infiltrate it," Kai said during the presentation.
Staff said the corridor is unusual because Pine Street is a residential roadway that also serves as a minor…
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