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Loomis council debates use of oak tree mitigation fund for public tree pruning; no ordinance change adopted
Summary
Council members and residents sparred over whether the town's oak tree mitigation fund should pay for recurring public-tree pruning or be reserved for planting and preserving heritage oaks; school district officials offered sites as potential planting partners. Council did not adopt changes but agreed to highlight the issue in the general-plan process or return it for future discussion.
Council members spent more than an hour debating whether money collected under Loomis's oak tree mitigation rules should be spent on routine public-tree pruning or preserved for planting and long-term oak conservation.
"I don't think that we should be using money that was paid to keep our tree canopy... to just prune any old tree," said Council member Ring, who asked staff to research whether the ordinance's allowable uses should be narrowed before the next round of pruning. Ring sought either direction to staff…
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