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Tree commission seeks legal clarity on who controls Bexley right-of-way; plans talks with council
Summary
Members debated overlapping city code definitions for the tree lawn and the legal ownership of rights-of-way after a staff review of plat maps, and agreed to pursue conversations with council and the mayor about possible ordinance changes.
The Bexley Tree Commission spent the meeting examining how city ordinances and historic plat maps define the public right-of-way and what that means for who can plant and maintain trees.
Commission member Jim Wilson summarized research he said he pulled from the county recorder’s office and read aloud his legal interpretation: “where right of ways were dedicated as part of a plat map… the city owns it in fee.” That finding set the frame for the discussion: the commission and city staff are operating with two different ordinance definitions of the “tree lawn” and unclear boundaries about planting rights behind sidewalks.
The commission highlighted two…
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