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Encinitas must decide if ficus trees are worth the cost

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:01:22 GMT

It could cost $1.2 million over the next five years to prune all of downtown's huge ficus street trees and repair root-caused cracks in the city's sidewalks, a new report states.

That hefty price tag doesn't include any damage claims nearby property owners might be tempted to file against the city over ficus tree roots that have invaded their sewer lines or damaged their parking lots, city arborist Chris Kallstrand told the Encinitas City Council last week.

Local tree ordinances could be cut in Texas

Thu, 22 Jun 2017 19:52:31 GMT

n January 2015, a few weeks before taking office as governor and four months before selling his Central Austin home, Gov. Greg Abbott blasted tree ordinances as part of the “patchwork quilt” of local bans hurting the state.

“Texas is being Californianized and you may not even be noticing it,” Abbott told a 2015 conference hosted by the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation, an influential think tank. “It’s being done at the city level with bag bans, fracking bans, tree-cutting bans. We’re forming a patchwork quilt of bans and rules and regulations that is eroding the Texas model.”

Proposal To Protect City Trees Will Get A Hearing This Week

Tue, 16 May 2017 13:02:38 GMT

After months of informal discussions, an updated tree protection ordinance is scheduled for a Louisville Metro Council committee hearing this week, though it’s not expected to get a vote.

The ordinance was introduced late last year. It primarily affects trees in public rights-of-way, like the strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street. Those trees have long been the responsibility of private property owners, and the city requires permits to plant, prune or remove them.

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