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Have you seen these benches? Here's where they came from!

The City has installed new wooden street furniture throughout the project corridor including tables, chairs, benches and an ADA accessible table.  The furniture was made by a local artisan, Oakhurst Builders, Inc., with assistance from a local sawmill, Lumbercycle. The chairs and tables were crafted from locally sourced recycled wood and the rustic benches from the Eucalyptus trees previously removed from the North Coast Highway 101 corridor. The goal is to divert woody biomass from landfills by milling removed trees into lumber and reinvesting it back into our communities.

Diseased trees, that were removed during construction of Leucadia Streetscape, were repurposed into usable benches for the public!

  • Trees along highway

    Trees to be repurposed

    Diseased Eucalyptus trees along coast Highway 101 were able to be preserved into functional benches.

  • rotted trees

    Disease

    Many of the local Eucalyptus trees have been affected by several fungi over the years.

  • logs

    Removal

    The diseased trees were removed and transported for processing.

  • bench slabs from trees

    Processing

    The Eucalyptus were milled and dried at Lumbercycle before being finished and assembled into the benches.

  • Wooden bench on highway 101

    Finished Bench

    The trees are still along the highway in their new and improved form!

For more information, you can view the project Fact Sheet here:

Project Fact Sheet