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Festival Beach Food Forest urges pause and city review after wastewater pipeline decision
Summary
Volunteers at Festival Beach Food Forest told the Environmental Commission they were left out of planning for a wastewater pipeline approved under Chapter 26 and asked the commission to urge city council to pause work, review communications failures, and redirect easement funds to salvage plantings and preserve volunteer investments.
Natalie Evans, a volunteer core‑team member with the Festival Beach Food Forest, told the Environmental Commission on Feb. 4 that the volunteer group contracted by the city to steward a 3.5‑acre parkland tract east of I‑35 was not notified about a wastewater pipeline project that will remove a barrier berm volunteers completed as part of Phase 2. “We are losing money, labor, time, plants, and soil at a value of a half million dollars,” Evans said in public comment, urging the commission to press the City Council for an immediate pause, a formal review of the Chapter 26 stakeholder process, and reallocation of easement funds to…
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