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Residents press Oakland Park staff for traffic calming, park upkeep and stormwater fixes during budget workshop
Summary
Multiple residents used the budget workshop Q&A to press staff for neighborhood traffic calming, replacement trees, park maintenance and stormwater fixes; staff promised follow-up and noted some items require county coordination or future budget action.
During the city's budget workshop Q&A, residents raised a range of neighborhood maintenance and public-safety concerns and asked how those issues would fit into Oakland Park's budget planning.
Pamela Shagens asked whether "there any possible way ... that we can have our surrounding wall higher?" for the Summer Lakes development, noting safety alerts for people scaling walls. Assistant City Manager Andrew Thompson said the wall was a mixed public/private arrangement: the city maintains the external elevation while the interior structure is private property, and he said staff would "make note of that" and follow up.
Wallace Peterson and other residents pressed for…
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