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Board urges recommended street-tree list after Breakers planting raises concerns
Summary
Board members criticized recent street-tree selections in the Breakers subdivision (maples and pin oaks) as poor long-term choices for sidewalk settings and discussed creating an approved list of street trees—published to developers via permitting—to avoid future conflicts.
Members of the city Forestation/Tree Board raised concerns that the Breakers subdivision is using maple and pin oak varieties as street trees, species several speakers said are likely to outgrow sidewalk space and cause future infrastructure problems. Speaker 3 said prior outreach to the developer produced no response and called the current plantings a disappointing long-term choice.
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