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Passaic residents press council over damaged sidewalks and conflicting tree-removal rules
Summary
A resident told the council a city-owned tree has lifted his sidewalk; council and administration described a case-by-case process requiring engineering and legal vetting and noted state restrictions on removing healthy street trees.
Alberto Rivera, a Passaic resident of nearly 29 years, told the City Council on May 6 that city-owned trees have lifted sidewalks at his corner property and that his efforts to get the city to repair the damage were unsuccessful.
Rivera said he was cited for a sidewalk violation despite the damage coming from roots of large oak trees and from a prior city removal that he said left the sidewalk damaged. He said he had been told by city staff in the past he could not remove or alter the trees and that he had offered to pay for tree removal years earlier. "Why? How is it possible that a homeowner would be…
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