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TO: Mayor and City Council
FROM: City Staff
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Santa Monica, California, August~5y'i;1975
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SUBJECT: Protective Fence--Marine Park
Introduction
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This report is a request to Council to consider authorizing funds for construction
of a higher protective fence at Marine Park adjacent to Marine Street.
Background
For a number of years, as early as 1963, homeowners living opposite Marine
Park on Marine Street, Paula Drive and Linda Lane have complained of .numerous
incidents of golf balls, baseballs, softballs and soccer balls flying over the fence
at Marine Park. These balls are reported by the neighbors to have caused damage
to houses and cars par'_ced on the streets noted above. In addition several auto
accidents have been attributed by the neighbors on attempts to avoid balls flying
out of Marine Park,
The present fence is 15 feet high for a distance of 115 feet at the west end of Marine
Park. The central portion of the fence is 20 feet high for a distance of 170 feet.
The remaining fence is 15 feet high for a distance of 175 feet. The City has received
a budgetary estimate of one dollar ($1.00) per foot times the height of fence. In
1967 there was a proposal to raise the central portion of the fence a height of 40
feet. The staff at that time considered the project too costly and did not endorse
the expenditure.
Alternatives
1. Leave the fence unchanged.
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2, Provide restrictive playground rules through an ordinance. This approach
would necessitate increased police patrol activity during unsupervised
hours
3. Construct a 40-foot fence at an estimated cost of $22, 000 including
engineering and contingencies. This height is considered to be too
obstrusive and does not afford additional protection equal to the cost
involved.
4. Construct a 30-foot fence at an estimated cost of $16, 560 including
engineering and contingencies. A 30-foot fence provides seventy-eight
percent (78`fo) more protective area than the present fence and is considered
a reasonable compromise in terms of cost and protection afforded.
Recommendation
1. It is recommended that staff be authorized to solicit bids to replace the
present fence with a 30-foot fence 460 long at Marine Park on Marine
Street, This recommendation is considered to be the most reasonable
approach to solving this problem in terms of cost and protection afforded.
It is felt that any fence, even 40 or 50 feet high, will be a challenge to an
individual intent on scaling an object over the fence.
2, In support of this recommendation it is requested that $16, 560 be transferred
from unappropriated reserve to Account No. 8511-920 or from unexpended
capital outlay funds that may be realized during the year.
Prepared by: James Connolly
Don Arnett
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