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Council debates public right‑of‑way rules after moratorium; staff urged to study changes
Summary
City staff urged the council to resume enforcement of border‑area maintenance and intersection sight-distance rules after an August enforcement moratorium; councilmembers asked staff to research modifications, grandfathering and public education before reinstating full enforcement.
Steve Naber, the City Engineer, told the Jan. 27 council work session that the city’s border-area maintenance code and the intersection sight-distance standard exist primarily for safety and consistency and that enforcement had been paused after a council-ordered moratorium in August.
“Why am I here today? In August the council placed a moratorium on enforcement of section 102 of the border area maintenance and asked that staff come back and review the code,” Naber said, adding that he included vision clearance rules (section 114.14) in his presentation because the two overlap. He summarized the goal plainly: “The bottom line is, can the public safely utilize the space?”
Naber showed examples of landscaping, boulders, planters and signs in the public border area — the strip between…
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