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Birchwood Ponds resident objects to planned tree removals, questions costs of street assessment

Inver Grove Heights City Council · March 9, 2026
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Summary

A Birchwood Ponds HOA board member told council he was told to remove dozens of right-of-way trees ahead of a street reconstruction assessment and asked who will compensate homeowners and provide per-tree documentation; he estimated the reconstruction assessment could be $10,000–$14,000 per property.

Damon Roth of Birchwood Ponds told the council during public comment that city staff notified his neighborhood that dozens of trees in the public right-of-way must be removed as part of an upcoming street reconstruction project and that his HOA has not been given per-tree documentation. He said the city’s estimate (which he read the engineer reported) differed…

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