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Resident urges rules to protect trees that span property lines during teardown projects
Summary
At the Sept. 13 Farmers Branch Sustainability Committee meeting a resident urged the committee to require developers to notify neighboring property owners before removing foliage that crosses property lines, citing repeated teardown projects that cleared mature trees.
A resident told the Farmers Branch Sustainability Committee on Sept. 13 that recent teardown-and-rebuild projects have repeatedly removed trees whose canopies or roots extended onto neighboring lots and asked the city to add simple requirements that would protect that foliage.
“I have witnessed a lot of these tear down, rebuild … projects going on. … the land is cleared of trees, including trees that are straddling neighboring properties,” the resident said. They said they found a single…
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