Reply To: Fined for Pruning a Tree

It’s a long story, Jordan, that started, in recent history, with the locked doors of the Triangle Shirtwaiste Factory in Manhattan, where hundreds of young women jumped out of windows to their deaths in front of thousands of traumatized citizens..

And it is a long path from there, with many twists and turns..

‘Commercial Site Plan Review’ as this church was probably subject to, details lighting, parking, sometimes architectural requirements, paving, drainage requirements, sidewalk requirements….and yes, planting…The society as a whole has recently attempted to replace BMP’s wi th the past practice of hooking into the public storm system and shooting it all out to the river..

Do you t hink it is good for the society to have storm water collection systems, Jordan? All these elements are  connected..And being constantly revised, reconsidered, refined..Yes, pruning of lagerstromia may go too far..But it seems like people have completely lost the history as well as the sense of communal responsibility, that is behind these things..

Tree requirements result in commercial plans that hopefully do not bring down the property values of adjacent properties – you really are not isolated from your neighbor, as much as  you may want to be..

So that is just a few elements of required site plans, and really none of the  history at all..Is it all news to you?