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Park board debates how to notify residents about boulevard tree trimming
Summary
The Ken Park Board reviewed the Boulevard Tree program and spent the meeting weighing several notification methods for winter trimming — door tags, mailed notices, billing inserts, text alerts and social media — and agreed to test a multi-channel outreach approach next season.
Ken Park Board members discussed the Boulevard Tree program and how best to notify residents before the city conducts winter street-side trimming.
Parks staff said the boulevard planting initiative began slowly but is now over 20 trees, primarily in newer developments, and clarified the city’s maintenance limit: the city trims street-side branches where they interfere with equipment and utilities, and it will not maintain trees inside private HOAs. "We trim street side only," the staff member said, adding that the program…
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