The City of Signal Hill is developing design plans to update its street medians.
Redesigns will include changes to the landscaping, hardscaping and irrigation of 45 street medians in Signal Hill, including over a dozen medians along Willow Street.
Updates will include adding new shrubbery and trees, replacing damaged or missing signage, removing possible tripping hazards for maintenance workers and more.
A representative from Landscape Architecture Firm SWA Group, which the City has contracted with, told the Parks and Recreation Commission that not all medians in Signal Hill can have landscaping, as some are completely made of stone or concrete and it wouldn’t be feasible to create new irrigation lines for them.
The Street Median Project will overlap with the Street Tree Master Plan, as the City is also considering replacing and removing some trees that are not thriving in the medians with native and climate-ready trees, such as Netleaf Hackberries, Australian Willows, Crape Myrtles or others.
The City of Signal Hill is asking residents to take an online survey to gauge the top three new tree species and three new shrubbery species they’d like to see planted in street medians.
The survey will close in one to two days, and the data gathered from residents will be compiled and presented to the City Council next week.
The survey is available on the Signal Hill City website.
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