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Rye Brook HOA seeks updated tree-species list to fix overgrown screening
Summary
Homeowners and village staff at a Rye Brook sketch-plan conference discussed replacing overgrown evergreens along the Enclave at Rye Brook border, agreeing the HOA should submit a formal landscaping plan listing approved, smaller species; a later public hearing and village approval will be required.
The Enclave at Rye Brook homeowners association asked the Rye Brook planning board during a sketch-plan conference to approve a list of replacement tree species after residents said original screen trees have outgrown their spacing and are dying.
Tommy Ciminello, who said he lives at 26 Carroll Court in the Enclave, told the board: "we could cut them down and replace them with a species that won't grow as large and kill the trees and and continue to grow at a level that is sustainable for our community?" Lee Freund, treasurer and a board member of the Enclave at Rye Brook HOA, showed photos of the border planting and said some trees are "growing into each other" and dying prematurely.
Why it matters: The HOA is not proposing to change the screening obligation in the approved site plan; rather, it wants the village to allow a master list of species that homeowners or the HOA may use when replacing failing plants, so future plantings will not recreate the same overgrowth and…
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