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Program 11.2: When the opportunity arises and when feasible, add landscaped parkway strips along street edges to soften their appearance and improve the pedestrian experience. Program 11.3: Increase the width of existing narrow parkway strips when the opportunity arises, and encourage applicants of new developments to provide parkway strips which arc at least 6-10 feet wide. Program 11.4: Install landscaped instead of paved medians and replace paved medians with landscaped medians wider than 6 feet, whenever possible and feasible. Program 11.5: In new developments, re(juire developers, owners associations, or maintenance associations to maintain landscaped tncdians. Program 11.6: Provide landscaping to soften the visual appearance of existing and new walls and fences that abut city streets, whenever possible and feasible. Program 11.7: Require additional setbacks and screening of development adjacent to a freeway. Program 11.8: Work with Caltrans to enhance landscaping along the freeways. Program 11.9: Along streets, work with developers and property owners to place a greater emphasis on the use of native plant species and on pruning techniques which allow species to appear more as they would in a natural setting, especially in larger planting areas. Policy 12: Repair existing City-owned soundwalls and fences facing city streets, when in disrepair, and discourage the installation of new soundwalls facing city streets and freeways. Program 12.1: Encourage the construction of landscaped berms, similar types of significantly landscaped sound barriers, larger setbacks, frontage roads, and/or other design techniques, instead of soundwalls. Program 12.2: In new developments, require the project developer, owners association, maintenance association, or sitnilar association to nlaintain sound barriers. Program 12.3: Maintain City-owned walls facing streets and enforce the maintenance of those that arc privately owned. Policy + 13: Improve the appearance of existing bridges. Program 13.1: Inventory existing bridge conditions and prepare a plan for improving their appearance with landscaping, color, decorative railinb'S, lighting, and/or other design techniques. Program 13.2: Implement the design and beautification policies in the Downtown Specific Plan related to the Main Street Bridge. Community Character 011607 rt'ulinc 10-23 1/3/21Kl1