[OldNorth] School District To Buy City Trees

[sheryl lynn gerety]

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