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Town Tree Committee agrees to reallocate trees to streets, sets follow-up on building permit and maintenance requests
Summary
At a remote Town Tree Committee meeting, members agreed to move excess trees originally intended for the airport to street and park locations, set short-term planting and watering plans, and asked staff to follow up with the building department and residents about permitting and a traffic-sightline complaint.
The Town Tree Committee agreed on informal next steps to reassign trees originally slated for the airport to street and park plantings, and set follow-up actions on a building-permit concern and a resident complaint about a Linden tree.
Dave, Town Tree Committee member, told the group, "Let's just take these trees and make them street trees," proposing the plants be transplanted to locations such as Delta Field and near bleachers. Committee members discussed planting two Princeton homes and three Zillocco species on Milestone and doing two additional plantings at Surfside.
The committee said crews have already begun watering newly planted trees: "We put, like, a 100 gallons on the meter," a committee member said, and the group planned to add at least another 50 gallons this week to keep recent…
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