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Tree board presses for early involvement after city’s Horizon View replanting plan surfaces

Lake Forest Park Tree Board (pre-board) · January 14, 2026
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Board members said they were surprised that roundabout mitigation plantings at Horizon View Park advanced without earlier board input and asked staff for routine updates on major city planting projects; staff said some approvals predated current staff and will provide more detail.

Members of the Lake Forest Park Tree Board raised concerns that a large-scale replanting plan tied to a roundabout mitigation project at Horizon View Park moved forward without earlier opportunity for board input.

Richard Saunders presented a map and described areas along the park edge where invasive hawthorns and other species could be removed and replaced with native or ornamental trees. He urged the board…

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