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Residents urge more trees and local collaboration on homelessness as city explains housing-element issues
Summary
Public commenters at Norwalk’s Feb. 4 meeting urged the city to plant native trees and reduce concrete medians to reduce heat island and stormwater pollution. Local nonprofit leaders urged collaboration after the state decertified the city’s housing element and the council’s moratorium on supportive housing.
Several residents used Feb. 4 public comment to press the city on urban trees, median design and the city’s response to a state decertification of its housing element.
Brian Tindell urged the council to restore and expand the city’s tree inventory and to consider removing concrete from medians and parkways to reduce stormwater runoff and urban heat-island effects. Tindell said a renewed tree list should include native species and noted prior Environmental Enhancement and Mitigation Program (EEMP)…
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