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Item # 1.

Council Meeting

Meeting Date:	09/27/2022
Department:	Parks & Recreation
Pillars:	Excellence in Asset Management
Milestones:	Promote and protect the Addison Way Continue development and implementation of the Long-Term Financial Plan

AGENDA CAPTION:

Present and Discuss Maintenance of Residential Screening Walls in Addison.

BACKGROUND:

The Parks Department maintains some, but not all of the masonry residential screening walls in Addison. Typically, the walls that the Parks Department maintains are identified on plats or surveys by easements for wall maintenance.

Over the last few months, several single-family residential neighborhoods have reached out to staff requesting that repairs be made to their perimeter screening walls. The requested repairs are associated with walls that have not been historically maintained by the Parks Department, nor is there a record of a wall maintenance easement on the plat and the walls are located on private property. The neighborhoods that have reached out indicated that previous Town staff committed to maintaining all single-family residential perimeter screening walls to provide a different level of service to Addison residents. In one instance, the Home Owner's Association (HOA) for a neighborhood provided recent e-mail correspondence with a former Town employee that did substantiate this. However, staff cannot find a legal record or documentation of this direction and is requesting Council's direction regarding the maintenance of single-family residential masonry perimeter screening walls.

To facilitate the conversation, staff will make a presentation that identifies single-family residential masonry perimeter screening walls in Town and the respective, known maintenance responsibilities.

RECOMMENDATION:

Staff seeks Council direction.

Attachments
Presentation - Wall Maintenance