Hermosa Beach About Town
Sidewalk upgrades in sight An Eighth Street patio intruding on the public right-of-way. Photo Hermosa Beach is inching closer to long-awaited upgrades to sidewalks on Eighth Street, one of the city’s few roads connecting the beach and Pacific Coast Highway. At its meeting last week, the City Council received updated construction plans for the stretch of sidewalk between Valley Drive and Hermosa Avenue. The work would bring curb ramps and driveways on the stretch into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and would create a minimum sidewalk width of 4.5 feet. According to the City’s Public Works Department, plans for Eighth Street are now complete, and total cost estimates for the improvements are just over $1 million. However, as city engineers and consultants brought designs to completion, they realized that minor work would have to be done on private property on six addresses along the stretch of improvements, said Public Works Director Glen Kau. The work, needed to smooth over connections between the upgraded driveways and curbs with the rest of the sidewalk, is expected to be minor and not impact any structures, but city officials are hoping to get residents in…
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