{"id":9766,"date":"2018-03-19T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9766"},"modified":"2018-03-19T02:09:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T07:09:42","slug":"trees-a-casualty-of-waukon-sidewalk-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/trees-a-casualty-of-waukon-sidewalk-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trees a casualty of Waukon sidewalk plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sidewalks are a good thing to have. In many towns, though, they could use some freshening up. However, a simple plan for improvements sooner or later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowadot.gov\/design\/dmanual\/12A-02.pdf\">will encounter the Americans With Disabilities Act<\/a>. (And then there&#8217;s Windsor Heights, whose residents never had them and <a href=\"http:\/\/whotv.com\/2016\/08\/15\/windsor-heights-moving-closer-to-building-sidewalks-in-residential-areas-despite-concerns\/\">really really don&#8217;t want them<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The state is ready to replace sidewalks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2018\/03\/iowa-9-allamakee-county-march-8.html\">along IA 9 and IA 76 in Waukon<\/a>, but there&#8217;s a catch: Many trees that sit between the sidewalk and the road will have to be removed. <a href=\"https:\/\/iowadot.gov\/pim\/documents\/030818Iowa9PD5.pdf\">One side of one block alone<\/a> (PDF) will lose half a dozen trees.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a nice place to walk and ride bikes, but no leafy mature trees to provide shade and pretty colors. Such is the nature of tradeoffs. (On the other hand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/destructive-beetles-found-in-iowa\/6874955\">if they&#8217;re ash trees<\/a>, perhaps it&#8217;s a blessing in disguise.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sidewalks are a good thing to have. In many towns, though, they could use some freshening up. However, a simple plan for improvements sooner or later will encounter the Americans With Disabilities Act. (And then there&#8217;s Windsor Heights, whose residents &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/trees-a-casualty-of-waukon-sidewalk-plan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9768,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions\/9768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}