Taking a walk , bike ride , or drive down East Columbus Drive in the City of Tampa is a safer , more aesthetically pleasing , and environmentally friendly endeavor now that improvements are complete on an approximately halfmile stretch of roadway at the gateway to historic Ybor City .

Look more closely and you ’ ll also notice a feature not often seen in urban design projects – street trees purposely planted to provide traffic calming and specially designed tree wells ( now referred to as “ stormwater trees ”) that use filtered stormwater for irrigation .

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