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-News Articles/Editorials/Letters to the Editor-
3/2/2001
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Carson City supervisors on Thursday added their approval to a proposed landscaping
and revegetation plan for the Carson City freeway. "This is a far cry from where we started 18 months ago," Mayor Ray Masayko said. The conceptual draft of the landscaping/revegetation plan proposes three different seed mixes, said city park planner Vern Krahn. One seed mix would be used for the south and west freeway embankments, another for the north and east embankments to accommodate the different exposure to the slopes. A third seed mix will be used in what are being called the community and neighborhood gateways. The community gateways are the intersections of the freeway interchanges at Arrowhead Drive, College Parkway and Highway 50 East. Krahn said the preferred plan is to see those intersections landscaped similar to the hardy landscaping at the Reno-Tahoe Airport. Neighborhood gateways at the freeway overpasses over Emerson Drive, Northgate Lane and Carmine Street probably will have more vegetation than the rest of the freeway slopes. "I have no doubt this will be held as a model in other communities," Supervisor Robin Williamson said. Funding continues to be the one issue with the landscaping/revegetation project which remains in question. The state has no estimates on how much the landscaping/revegetation project will cost. What features the landscaping plan will have when it is finished is dependent on funding. However, Krahn did note that the state is putting in the infrastructure necessary to care for gateway landscaping. |
