Fountain Valley plans landscaping projects and restarting City Hall fountain
The Fountain Valley City Council will revisit two big-ticket beautification projects Tuesday.
The council will review median landscaping improvements for Brookhurst and Euclid streets and Edinger Avenue beginning next fiscal year, the first of several arterial median facelifts planned through 2022.
Proposed designs include keeping the existing pine trees, or replacing them with willows, and planting drought-tolerant succulents, shrubs and ornamental grasses. The city will also install new, welcoming “gateway signs” at major intersections.
City Hall also plans to tackle Magnolia and Newhope streets and Warner, Slater and Talbert avenues over the next four years.
The total for refreshing all eight streets comes to about $2.8 million.
And the long-dry City Hall fountain could be closer to reawakening.
The city switched off and drained the fountain in 2015 during the drought. Since then, the feature has fallen into disrepair.
The city has been refining ideas for the iconic, 17,000-gallon fountain over the past several months.
In October, the council was set to consider a contract with its landscape architecture partner for plans, specifications, estimates and construction support to repair the fountain, partially restore its flow and add an artful garden to portions where the water won’t bubble.
But the full proposed project penciled out to about $420,000 — about $300,000 more than the city had allocated for the fountain’s repair. That led the council to hold off to further study more-detailed cost estimates.
The council will now consider pared-down possibilities that range from about $100,000 to $297,000.
Tuesday’s meeting starts at 5:15 p.m. with the study session, followed by the regular session at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 10200 Slater Ave.
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