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Vienna to consider joining regional request asking Dominion Energy to limit tree clearing on W&OD Trail
Summary
Council reviewed a draft joint resolution from NOVA Parks asking Dominion Energy to pursue selective pruning, plant native low-level trees where appropriate and replant areas already cut; council asked staff and the town attorney to review language and agreed to consider signing the resolution at a follow-up meeting.
Town leaders on March 17 considered a joint resolution circulated by NOVA Parks asking Dominion Energy to change vegetation-management practices along the Washington & Old Dominion (W&OD) Trail.
The mayor introduced the resolution, which asks Dominion to adopt selective pruning rather than wholesale tree removal, set vegetation-height limits to allow a wider variety of native trees and shrubs, and, where cutting is necessary to…
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