From winterety at sbcglobal.net Thu Oct 18 10:37:29 2007 From: winterety at sbcglobal.net (sheryl lynn gerety) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:37:29 -0700 Subject: [OldNorth] School District To Buy City Trees Message-ID: <72934c2c2a19e65ee5748ae1ec3c808b@sbcglobal.net> Neighbors, Tonight at beginning at 5P at the Davis Police Department the Tree Commission will meet to review the agreement between the Davis Joint Unified School District and the City of Davis that provides for DJUSD to buy young trees to be planted by the city to replace the three mature Aleppo pines lost to the construction of King High School last fall. Our neighborhood association played a part in calling the city's attention to the Street Tree removal, our ONDNA Tree Committee met with DJUSD representatives, we attended a board and city council meeting and encouraged a number of things to be implemented: 1) That removal of mature Street Trees should be mitigated by the planting of young trees by a formula based on the diameter of the lost tree trunks (just three trees replanted would not make up for the loss). 2) That our neighborhood particularly lost shade, transpiration, CO2 absorption and other benefits of the mature trees. 3) That we would welcome new trees from DJUSD planted in spaces where other Street Trees had been removed and not replaced. Our Tree Committee has nearly finished identifying empty Street Tree spaces in our neighborhood. We would like to formally request that the city plant in Old North Davis young Street Trees donated by DJUSD to the number the city requires. Finally, the ONDNA Tree Committee would secure the permission and promise of the property owners identified by our selection process to care for them until well established. We hope by these efforts to ensure more young Street Trees surviving. Please come to the meeting tonight to support our Board's efforts to secure trees for our neighborhood. Best regards, Sheryl Gerety President, ONDNA Board From winterety at sbcglobal.net Thu Oct 18 10:39:47 2007 From: winterety at sbcglobal.net (sheryl lynn gerety) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:39:47 -0700 Subject: [OldNorth] Meeting Postponed Message-ID: <2826e2cbdfa0dd1917ca3259e52c1e8a@sbcglobal.net> Sorry, Folks, this just in. Status:?? Dennis the school district has asked the plan be pulled from the Tree Commission Agenda tonight to do some better planning for the mitigation. l I will let you know when this item comes back to the Commission. ? Thanks, Rob Cain Urban Forest Manager City of Davis rcain at cityofdavis.org ? Please make time to discuss the issue with your household as we move along in meetings with the City. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 510 bytes Desc: not available URL: