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Council reduces tree‑ordinance fine on appeal, orders staff follow‑up on neighbor issues
Summary
After hearing engineers for an appellant who removed volunteer trees on a retaining‑wall slope, the council voted 6–0 to reduce the enforcement fine to the amount of the original permit fee and instructed code enforcement to pursue outstanding neighbor issues and fence repairs.
The council heard an appeal from residents who removed volunteer trees from a slope behind their property and voted to reduce the enforcement fine to the amount that would have been charged for a permit.
Appellants presented two retaining‑wall engineering reports concluding that trees larger than roughly 3 inches in diameter should not grow within the reinforced soil zone behind a segmental retaining wall of the height involved and…
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