Safety Takes Second Place To Privacy

From the City manager's Report:

Vegetation Abatement for Intersections Visibility and Street Sweeping -- Each year the Public Works staff identify properties where vegetation obstructs visibility for motorists. The visibility obstructions are cleared through a nuisance abatement process. At the end of the process, any properties with vegetation that is not been cleared by the property owners are cleared by a City contractor, and the costs are placed on the next year’s property tax bills. This year, a nuisance abatement process was implemented for vegetation that obstructs access for street sweeping. There were 95 intersection visibility obstructions and 214 street sweeping obstructions for which the City Council ordered abatement in March. At this time, there has been 100% compliance with the abatement notices, so there will be no need to assess any of those property owners for vegetation removal.

This is very interesting since you still can't see a thing at the intersection of 3rd and Park. I bet you could come up with a few intersections that are view obstructed by overgrown plants.

I also know of one camper-truck that hasn't been driven in years except for the owner moving it a couple of yards so that he can say it has been moved. Of course the owner is a retired Laguna Beach police officer so I guess that makes a difference - to the city but not to his neighbors.

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