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Friendship Heights council votes to remove Page Park pergola, adds safety review
Summary
The Village Council on Dec. 8 approved removing the Page Park pergola and replacing it with vegetation, conditioned on a safety review by the village project manager; the amendment passed unanimously after debate about fences and liability.
The Friendship Heights Village Council voted Dec. 8 to remove the pergola at Page Park and replace it with vegetation after a safety review by the village project manager.
Chair Martha Soult moved to adopt Option 3 — "removing the pergola permanently and replacing it with vegetation for an estimated cost of $10,000 to $15,000" — and amended the motion to add a safety review requested by Council Member Mueller. Soult said the amendment would add the clause "after a safety review is completed by the…
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