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Residents urge Lakewood to block removal of 60-inch Garry Oak at Emerson Lake
Summary
Multiple residents urged the Lakewood City Council to deny a developer request that would allow cutting a large Garry Oak in the Woodbrook/Emerson Lake area, saying unpermitted clearing already removed dozens of trees and that mitigation or fines cannot replace a centuries-old specimen.
Dozens of residents pressed the Lakewood City Council on Feb. 2 to protect a large Garry Oak tree on property in the Woodbrook/Emerson Lake area, saying developer activity and a retroactive tree-cutting permit would allow the loss of what they described as an irreplaceable, centuries-old tree.
"No mitigation planting, no fee or replacement plan can replicate what would be lost," Christina Monetti of the Gary Oak Coalition told the council, urging officials to "require preservation of this tree in place." Monetti and other speakers said roughly 70 trees had already been removed from the parcel without permits and called a retroactive permit to remove the final large oak "deception."
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