About those trees at the Water and Sewer Dept.
The county is putting in a sidewalk and it seems that rather than go around the trees, they are cutting down nine large fully grown trees to do it.
But that many not be the case.
A shoddy contractor came in and destroyed the trees by digging too close to them, exposing the roots. Poincianas and old oaks were hurt.
One question - why are there always unhealthy trees on all projects the city and county does and why are those unhealthy trees always just coincidentially in the way of whatever they are doing. The healthy trees are the ones that are not affecting the projects, but the ones that affect the projects are "unhealthy."
As of now, all worked related to the project has been haulted. There will be a city meeting on the site in the near future to discuss the project.
It helps when neighbors speak up. The Grand Avenue project is on hold and now this sidewalk project at the Water and Sewer Dept.
UPDATE: The trees at Jaguar restaurant on Grand Avenue are being cut as of 9 am this morning So I'm not sure what to believe anymore.
posted by Tom Falco at 4:00 AM
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1 Comments:
The unfortunate part of this story is that I approached the contractor and the representative from WASA on the site when they first dug the easterly section, before they butchered the Oak tree. I asked them if they had a permit to cut the roots of these trees and was met with blank stares and no response. The contractor obviously did not know they needed any permits to cut the trees.
I chewed on them and told them I was going to call Code enforcement, which I did immediately. I informed Code Enforcement of the damage to the trees and sent emails to Code Enforcement and other pertinent departments. I also advised that they needed to stop the project before it continued west across the WASA entrance toward Le Jeune Road. The following week the project continued to Le Jeune Road, damaging the large Oak next to the entrance.
Despite repeated requests to the City, I was not provided any public information about this project, even after copying Ken Russell on my last attempt.
It is shameful that the City does not insist that contractors are aware of the permits required when trees are involved, and that inspectors enforce the need.
As mentioned, too many cheap, fly by night contractors who are willing to ignore the rules to make a buck.
I am very happy this useless project was stopped and hope that it causes WASA and the City great inconvenience.
We in the community must continue to apply pressure to the City and our commissioners to clean up their act.
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