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Tree Protection Board approves removal of trees at Pine Trace for park grading
Summary
The Summerville Tree Protection Board approved an application allowing Dorchester County contractors to remove more than 20 trees at Pine Trace to accommodate grading for a playground and kayak-area connection; contractors and board members discussed replacement plantings and asked for additional canopy trees across the park.
The Summerville Tree Protection Board voted to approve an application allowing contractor crews to remove trees at Pine Trace, a county-owned park site, so grading can raise the finished grade for a playground area and to match an adjacent kayak area.
The decision came at the board’s first meeting of 2025, when members considered contractor plans and a landscape architect’s tree survey. Chair, Tree Protection Board, framed the item as the meeting’s only active business and opened discussion with county and contractor representatives present. Christian, a representative of Johnson Locks Construction, told the board the site grade "is coming up a couple feet" and that because of that infill "I don't think that they'd be able to live," referring to the trees now slated for…
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