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Residents press La Habra Heights to enforce weed abatement and add slough-removal in road projects
Summary
At the Oct. 4 workshop residents and the roads committee urged the city to require stronger weed-abatement enforcement, include slough removal in road‑maintenance contracts, and consider assigning costs to homeowners who fail to abate before paving.
Residents, roads‑committee members and council staff used the Oct. 4 La Habra Heights workshop to spotlight a recurring infrastructure problem: slough (soil slippage and debris) encroaching on narrow roads, narrowing travel lanes and constraining emergency access.
Matthew Edinger, a roads committee member, said the committee’s remit is to plan long‑term maintenance and financing of city roads and argued the city should give the committee more authority to press for property owner responsibility. He cited high contractor charges for clearing and grubbing and questioned why the city’s current bids result in costly post‑project clearing instead of…
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