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Public commenters urge public art, signage to protect cement channel frog habitat
Summary
Members of the public told the committee landscapers repeatedly cleared vegetation from a cement channel that serves as local frog habitat and asked the Public Art Advisory Committee to consider signage, benches and a subcommittee to raise awareness while legal staff resolve ownership questions.
During the meeting’s public-comment period, members of the Open Space and Ecology Committee asked the Public Art Advisory Committee to help protect a cement channel used by local frogs by adding interpretive signage, benches and public-art features to educate landscapers and the public.
One commenter said landscapers repeatedly cut vegetation the frogs use for mating and brood rearing and that the city has engaged the private owner…
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