[OldNorth] OldNorth -- first count of missing street trees

[Robin&Dennis]

Old North leadership,
	For the agenda's discussion topic this Thursday I can give 
two preliminary reports on street trees related to the replacement of 
King High project.  The context is that Old North has talked to the 
school district about (1) our interest in protecting and enhancing 
their street trees at King's B Street frontage and (2) their verbal 
agreement to compensate for on-site removal of several large trees by 
funding an in-fill in Old North of our missing street trees.
	1).  I've sent two emails without getting a reply from our 
DJUSC contact Maureen Poole about our board's interest last week in 
the health of unwatered surviving street trees along B. Street (and 
also mentioned was our concern about ground cover ivy as a planting 
and our concern about adequate spacing for the two cork oaks to be 
planted).  No reply from the school district is the news here.
	2). I've done a survey of "missing street trees" from the Old 
North area.  Some 71 addresses are given below from this morning's 
review of places in the boulevards of our neighborhood where the 
regular grid of street tree plantings is missing a tree (in general, 
two trees per lot on the B to G lettered streets and 4 trees per long 
lot on the 5th-6th-7th street frontages.  In a few cases I do not 
list below a missing tree that seems an unlikely candidate for 
replacement because driveways make planting illogical;  in many of 
the cases below the existing trees have grown to such size that it 
would be illogical to expect a new tree to thrive against established 
competition adjacent to that site.  I give you the list of 71 places 
missing a tree to initiate a conversation about whether we want to 
suggest that the city (with DJUSD funding) plant new trees in these 
71 places.

B Street:  none missing.
C Street:  520, 603, 632, 651.
D Street:  607 (x2), 621, 627, 512 516,  528, 510 6th (x2), 608, 616, 648.
E Street:  507, 517, 539, 637, 600-6th (x2), 618, 710-7th.
F Street:  503 (x2), 507, 513, 519, 529, 531, 537 (x3), 621-6th (x2), 
637, 508, 512, 516.
	704-6th, 703-6th (x4), 630, 636, 642, 646 (x4).
G Street:  501 (x4), 607, 617, 647, 500 (x3), 516, 522, 536 (x2), 620 
(x3), 630 (x2).


	Let me know if there is a proposed addition or deletion from 
the list. We can refine the list through some committee process if we 
decide to put to the City a list for their review.
	Whole additional issue:  should we at this time ask home 
owners whether they think their existing street tree needs replacing 
at this time?  Lots of people hate their street trees for various 
reasons (wrong variety, dripping and dropping behaviors, ugly shape, 
not an even more attractive variety, etc.).

Your street tree committee member,
Dennis Dingemans

** P.S.:  did anyone else notice Cyndy Marshall & Steve Tracy's 
classy new bike rack?  I heart it.

	A whole