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Council reviews zoning tweaks for streetscapes, trees and streetlights
Summary
Community Development proposed code amendments to expand the city's list of major streets subject to enhanced landscaping and lighting standards, clarify how landscape setbacks are measured from property lines (not sidewalks) and add maintenance language to protect existing street trees; staff said the changes align code to engineering standards.
Steve Castro of Community Development summarized several proposed text amendments to the zoning ordinance that affect major corridors, landscaping measurement and street-scaping requirements. He told councilors the first change would add two streets to a designated category and that the code language would be clarified to measure landscaping from the property line rather than from a sidewalk in unusual cases such as freeway-adjacent parcels.
Castro also described proposals to reference the updated engineering standards for streetlight specifications and to expand language to preserve street trees and fill gaps where redevelopment removed plantings. "The 1st change would be to add 2 streets, where I drive this this section basically between the Mountain View Corridor and 5600 West," he said, and councilors asked clarifying questions about implementation on specific corridors such as 35th South and Redwood.
