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Homewood City committee delays decision on trees planted in right of way at 214 Edgewood Boulevard

3204293 · May 6, 2025
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The Homewood City Public Works Committee on May 5 carried over a request for retroactive approval to leave several newly planted trees in the right of way at 214 Edgewood Boulevard after committee members raised concerns about ordinance violations, construction safeguards and long-term sidewalk damage.

The Homewood City Public Works Committee on May 5 carried over consideration of a request to allow newly planted trees to remain in the right of way at 214 Edgewood Boulevard.

The item (3700425) was brought to the committee by Kale Smith, who said the trees were installed after a building inspector flagged them and that the project had been permitted under an older set of rules that did not require a landscape plan. "We do need retroactive approval to leave them. And if it's not approved, then we have to cut them down because they are all large caliber…

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