HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Report - September 2, 1981 (38)CITY COtTN£IL MEETING
September 2, 1981
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City Clerk apprised the Council that a letter had beers
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received from Bob Zamora, owner of Lodi Honda, 1700 S.
COMPLAINT RE
Cherokee Lane, requesting that the oleander medium on
CHEROKEE LANE
Cherokee Lane from.Almond Drive to Poplar Street be trimmed
OLEANDERS
down to a height of three feet.
The Clerk apprised Coni that she had received a request
that this matter be held over to the meeting of September
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16, 1981.
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Council tacitly concurred to continue the matter to
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the regular Council meeting of September 16, 1981.
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City.of Lodi
_P 0 Box 320
Lodi, Ca. 952+0
'700 SOU`H CHEROKEE LAPX, _ODI. CALIF. 95240
QHONE: 33 --HONDA
To the members of the Lodi City Council
August 18, 19811
&e: The Oleander medium on Cherokee lane from Almond Dr.
to f'ovu`lar St.
I have r--ide an ' ir.7 • .- .LO nvr-,t-rt.r.t in
the city of Lodi, and -ioT, only ss oro-, rt;,r owners 'jut
the owner of a business '-h.-,t J n brinrirw a lot of r.:oney into
-t.he cie<y from the Surrolndin- tO-W r 1 f -N_'!. thZlt :'le C� 'ty Of
Lodi should solve a problem ;hit exist::.
I wmrt the city of Nodi to ri;move or -it letest trim down
to a 3' heielit 0te oleander bu%hov in the medium .�r. Cherokee
Lane. Their present heikh Oast"ucis vision and cr "' 8 an
extreze'traffic hazzard. 1 have seen drivers come -out of
Almond'give and after turning left finally realize that they
are going- in ._ he wrong direction. Ben Csborne of lent -s �"ic --eo-
tric tells --me that *he has wittnessed the same thing on
numerous occasions.
':he Oleander wall currently creates a freeway atmosphere
where traffic coming orf the freeway doesn't slow dowii until
it reaches the Kettlemma and Cherokee Lane intersection.
I understand that there is a siga`_' cant imrovement
plana for Hutch' rs Street. 'Aly is Cherokee Lane being left
out? I was reou'red to conform to specific building requir-
ements which included a large amour.: of grass arAa, vet no
one hon ing South on Cherokee Lane would even know that my
business is here. '.his is not right and 1 reques. that the
city of Lodi correct tris s tua:3.on.
I have been told that approval has been given to trim the
Oleanders i!' the property owners would pay the cost of their
triming and then also mainta:.n them it the future. 1 am sure
that you all realize how this ip-i gyres the issue of safety
and stimulation o -cc::-! business. The chance of organizing
all the affected business owners and cor.nr to a fair assess-
ment for each would be a project tree* which the city would
receive -a lot of bad p_•')licity, a'_^r.g w th many cinims of
unfairness. Yet even so, I am row and w4_;1 be in the future
willing to vky a reasonable amount it this :s wha: it will
tune to create a safer traffic area and a better business
climate for South Cherokoe Lane.
RECEIVED
AUG 19 1981
CITY OF LODI
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