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3 Feb
Hey, is anyone gonna chop down the Lincoln Avenue Stump? On this Super Bowl Sunday, WGx is taking bets on its over-under prospects. How long ’til someone puts it totally out of its misery?
Sure, it used to be a tree … and a few big branches did fall off during January’s big storm, but did it deserve to be clipped so mercilessly?
It may not be an infamous sycamore tree, but it is part of a residential property, squeezed in between two commercial buildings on Lincoln Avenue, just south of Malone. Just across the street, a horribly-pruned, multi-stumped tree awaits city permits to bulldoze the whole building.
If the homeowner won’t chop this one all the way down, maybe the city can help. Or maybe the owner of the no-longer-obscured billboard can chip in to cover some of the cost.
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Upon investigation, it appears that this was a tree that split apart during the storms in January. We have now directed our DOT Tree Crew to remove the
remainder of the trunk down to the City’s standard 18″ height. We are issuing a permit to the property owner to remove the stump and replant with the designated tree within 60 days, which in this case will be an Aristocrat Flowering Pear. If you would like to volunteer for an upcoming tree planting, as was done 2 weeks ago at Wilcox Park in Willow Glen go to http://www.ourcityforest.org
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