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Bexley commission tables front-yard memorial landscape at 124 Stansbury Avenue pending city attorney opinion

Bexley Tree Commission · December 18, 2025
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The Bexley Tree Commission voted to table the landscape application for 124 Stansbury Ave (PGC 25-5) until January, making any approval contingent on a written city attorney opinion about whether shrubs and other plantings are allowed in the public right-of-way.

The Bexley Tree Commission on a show-of-hands vote on Tuesday tabled an application for a front-yard landscape and memorial sculpture at 124 Stansbury Avenue until its January meeting and asked staff to obtain a written opinion from the city attorney on whether the city’s current ordinances permit shrubs in the public right-of-way.

The application, filed as PGC 25-5, was presented by landscape architect Mark Schaeffer, who described a private courtyard-style front yard and a sculpture intended to memorialize the applicant’s daughter. Schaeffer said technical concerns raised at an…

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