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Norwalk council designates detention area, denies resident request to replant trees
Summary
After public comment and technical staff briefing, Norwalk City Council voted to designate a city parcel as a stormwater detention area and declined a resident’s request to plant or replant trees within the detention basin because of engineering, easement and maintenance concerns.
Norwalk City Council voted June 5 to officially designate a disputed parcel as a stormwater detention area and to decline a resident’s request to replant trees within the basin.
Resident Todd Bordenaro asked the council to let him replant trees he had previously installed and to relocate three surviving trees to a nearby gap to screen his yard. “My name is Todd Bordenaro, and I live at 102 Braebelands Circle,” Bordenaro said, explaining he acquired and planted the trees at his own expense and wants to repurpose those that remain rather than see them removed. He asked the city to allow replanting or to let parks staff repurpose the trees where they would not interfere with stormwater functions.
City engineering and parks staff warned that the detention…
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