This is newly constructed within the last month or so, new sidewalk. What can you tell us about this . As i said earlier, spikas a hearty urban tree. They have aggressive roots and sometimes they daniel the infrastructure, with the fica tree, we can repair the sidewalk around it, it doesnt mean we str to remove the tree. But sometimes if the roots are everywhere, the numb of roots to cut or shave, would render the tree unstable, in this case, we were able to keep the tree, a nice upright ficas tree. We expanded the base. And we keep the necessary path of travel for pedestrians but if we open this up so we dont cut a big root. We try to preserve as many roots as we can. The path of travel, the city has a minimum travel standard, i believe it is 48 inches. It is. We easily maintained thap about we see where trees encroach on that or are tripping hazards. We never want to go less than 48 inches in the path of travel, ideally, it is more than that, but if it is scrult of losing or keeping
To go across the street and look at. Poor fell la. What happened . What happened here. Well, these trees were obviously, cut down, and we hope that they got a permit to do so. This is the permit application for anyone that wants to remove a tree in the public right of way. It is the same application you want if you want to remove a tree on private property, but within ten feet of the rightofway. The ordinance that lien we advised to include the same protections for what is called significant trees. Those are trees located on private property that happen to be within ten feet of the public right of way and also meet a certain size requirement, it is not just anything, it needs to have, a diameter of the trunk. Which is measured at 4 1 2 feet above grade, needs to be greater than 12 inches. The canopy with the width of the tree needs to be greater than 15 feet or the height of the tree would need to be greater than 20 feet. If thats the case, these would be significant tree, even if they
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