Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Sunday, April 12, 2020

Concrete neighborhood streetlight pole

Concrete neighborhood streetlight pole, Yale Avenue, Yalecrest neighborhood, Salt Lake City

I've mentioned that Salt Lake City has what seems to be a unique program that allows residents on a street or in a larger neighborhood to band together and install a "private" network of sidewalk focused streetlights.  The city will provide grants to help this along.  But the project is organized and coordinated by residents.

It's also a lot cheaper because instead of linking the streetlights to the grid separately--usually through an underground network of cabling that requires digging up a portion of the entire street--the streetlights are connected to the grid via the electricity connection to individual houses--and that property pays for the cost of the electricity.

But I haven't seen many examples of concrete streetlight poles, which are super long lasting.  (San Francisco should use this material as it is impervious to urine for much longer period.  See "Lamp post destroyed by urine falls in street, just misses driver," San Francisco Chronicle.)

However, it's possible that these streetlights were installed by the original developer of the neighborhood, as the style is in keeping with other street furniture elements, like signage, placed elsewhere.

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