Trees and Businesses Expected to Flourish
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Topping a priority list of city projects for 1998 is a tree-planting program to replace foliage in denuded areas. A citizen’s advisory committee will help develop a plan to add more trees and replace cracked curbs, sidewalks and gutters damaged by unruly roots.
Also expected to take root this year are new businesses. City lots on the market for development could lure employers, which should go well with Mayor Ronald Bates’ hopes of increasing municipal revenues.
Funding for the annual Fourth of July spectacular at the Los Alamitos Armed Forces Reserve Center could cause fireworks. Though other cities plan to chip in this year, Seal Beach probably won’t, so officials will look for outside, even private, sources.
Bates also wants to tackle congestion problems downtown, particularly around Katella Avenue and Los Alamitos Boulevard.
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