PORT ANGELES — A city proposal to curtail future private upkeep and decorations around memorials on city parks properties stirred emotions but no action Thursday night.
Fourteen people addressed the city’s Parks, Recreation and Beautification Commission at a public hearing on new policies to streamline donations of trees, benches and other items made to parks, including the Waterfront Trail.
Most concerns focused on a proposal to prohibit all landscaping and decoration around existing benches, lampposts and other memorials after Jan. 1, 2007.
Leland Carlson, who has worked voluntarily to maintain flowers, trees and other memorial items along the Waterfront Trail, noted the pride city residents take in the decorated donations — and the joy tourists get out of them.
“As far as tourists are concerned, they love it,” he said.
Carlson gave the commission a petition signed by 352 people who would like to see the landscaping and flowers remain and be enhanced in the future.
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The rest of the story appears in the Friday/Saturday Peninsula Daily News Clallam County edition.
