TO:
Honorable Mayor Powell and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
David N. Carmany, City Manager
FROM:
Jim Arndt, Public Works Director
Sona Kalapura, Environmental Programs Manager
SUBJECT: Title
Request for Proposal for Landscape Master Planning Services for the Veterans Parkway.
APPROVE
Body
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RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that City Council approve the Request for Proposal for Landscape Master Planning Services for the Veterans Parkway.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
$40,000 in funding for the Veterans Parkway landscape master plan project was approved in the fiscal year 2012-13 budget. Additionally, staff time will be required to manage the proposal process and consultant team should the City Council decide to move forward with the project.
BACKGROUND:
One of the 3-year goals of the City’s adopted Strategic Plan is to “Maintain and enhance city facilities, programs and the infrastructure.” The Veterans Parkway, commonly known as the Greenbelt, is a 21-acre park that crosses the City of Manhattan Beach from north to south along Valley Drive and Ardmore Avenue from Sepulveda Boulevard to the border of Hermosa Beach. It was developed in 1986, and renamed from Manhattan Parkway in 1998. (As a historical reference, the Santa Fe Railroad completed a single track line to Redondo Beach, along the present-day location of the Greenbelt between Valley and Ardmore, in 1888.)
Project Site and Amenities
The Veterans Parkway includes a 1.5 mile jogging trail and wheelchair accessible par course with four workout stations between the intersections of 10th and 11th Streets. It is the only park in the City in which leashed dogs are allowed (other than dedicated dog parks). Park benches and shade trees provide resting spots every quarter-mile along the path. There are also drinking fountains for dogs and their human companions. Lastly, the Mariposa Pathway, a 250-foot section of the parkway near Ninth Street,...
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