ARTESIA BLVD PARKWAY
MAINTENANCE RELINQUISHMENT
PUBLIC WORKS | STREETSCAPE DIVISION
December 17, 2024
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BACKGROUND
•In 2003, City Council approved the following landscape improvements on Artesia Blvd., from Hawthorne Blvd. to
Western Ave. (approximately 2.5 miles)
•Installation of recycled water irrigation in
parkways and center medians
•Planting of trees and sod in parkways
•Planting of trees and vegetation in center
medians
2 BACKGROUND
The City Currently Provides :
•Parkway water for irrigation
•Parkway maintenance of irrigation system
•Parkway turf mowing
•Parkway tree maintenance
3 ANALYSIS
•Property owners or their landscapers have “cross-
connected” their private potable water irrigation system with the City recycled water irrigation system in the
parkways
•Cross connection mixes recycled water with potable
drinking water, which is not allowed and is a health
concern
4 ANALYSIS
•The County of Los Angeles Public Health has suspended
the use of recycled water irrigation multiple times due to cross connection issues. Irrigation has been off for over two years
•County of Los Angeles Public Health has recommended
permanently disconnecting recycled water (to the
parkways)
•Recycled water will resume in the center medians
5 CONTINEOUS CITY MAINTENANCE
•City recently planted 110 new trees located in vacant
parkways and center medians. There are now 512 street
trees on Artesia
•The City will continue to maintain the trees in the
parkways
•The City will continue to maintain the trees,
vegetation, and irrigation in the center medians
6 RECOMMENDATION
•Permanently discontinue recycled water to parkways
•Return parkway maintenance responsibility of irrigating and mowing to the property owners consistent with Torrance
Municipal Code 75.1.13, which states that it shall be the duty of property owners to provide for maintenance of grass and landscaping in public parkways abutting their property
•Inform 192 property owners that are adjacent to the grass parkways of the transition. Issue 60 and 30-day written notice of letters and door hangers
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