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West Linn to shift maintenance responsibility for new heritage trees to property owners, grandfather existing designations
Summary
Council heard legal review and staff recommendations to change the tree code so that future heritage-tree designations on private property would be maintained by owners; existing nine designated heritage trees would be grandfathered with city maintenance preserved unless owners opt in to new terms.
City staff and legal counsel told the West Linn City Council on Sept. 2 that proposed tree-code amendments would shift responsibility for maintaining heritage trees on private property from the city to the property owner for any trees designated after the effective date, while continuing city maintenance for nine existing designated trees unless owners choose otherwise.
Megan Bigjohn, who led the presentation, said the amendments are intended to clarify technical standards, improve public information and ensure municipal code compliance with state law. "We wanted to ... make it very…
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