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SAFETY HARBOR| With a new moratorium on tree removal in place, the city is now focused on fine-tuning an ordinance that strengthens existing tree protection rules.

All city commissioners but Richard Blake this month voted to ban tree cuts through April 1 unless the updated ordinance is passed sooner. The proposed law would expand Safety Harbors authority beyond grand trees of a certain size to all trees within city limits.

Commissioners will discuss ordinance language during a City Hall workshop 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, with their regular meeting following.

Items on the regular meeting agenda include a proposed budget amendment that would restore $27,000 gleaned through a deferred hire, reduced health insurance costs and other savings to the Chamber of Commerce, Neighborly Care Network and Mattie Williams Neighborhood Family Center.

Controversy over reducing the funding during summer budget talks generated outcry from multiple residents and prompted two commissioners to vote against the 2015 budget.

Last month, local businessman Jim Barge presented a $1,000 check to the Mattie Williams center during a city meeting and publicly challenged residents to participate in a crowd-funding campaign in which he would match dollar-for-dollar all money raised up to $2,000. As of Tuesday, three weeks into the campaign, 28 contributors had donated $4,115. Barge, who researched the center's work after hearing residents' pleas during budget season and subsequently vowed to help raise awareness, said he plans to keep the challenge going through its Thanksgiving deadline.

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Paul Claas is an ordinary man with a not-so-ordinary dream -- to straighten wonky, wobbly Christmas trees.

Some people stay up at night worrying about whether they turned in their work on time or paid their mortgage before the deadline. For Claas, visions of unstable conifers have been dancing in his head for over 20 years.

That's when the 65-year-old DeForest resident and inventor of the Premier Christmas Tree Stand said "enough is enough" and designed his first prototype for his personal use.

"It was a very simple concept where you'd drill a hole up the trunk of the tree and set it on a peg," says Claas.

Two decades and several versions later, Claas is semi-retired from running a truck salvage business (tinkering and fixing are clearly in his DNA) and he is continuing to produce and sell his novel tree stands.

The current version, made out of sturdy metal (in red and green, of course) features metal "jaws" that hold the tree trunk in place. A couple of knobs can be turned for adjustments. The result is a much more secure tree, less likely to tilt or topple. It's easier to make adjustments, too, after the tree is in the stand, unlike with conventional models. A large container for water is detachable, which makes removal easier (and means fewer trips to re-hydrate the tree).

"Each Christmas tree stand is my baby," he says. "This is my passion."

The entrepreneur, despite his zeal for his Christmas creation, has sold only hundreds, not thousands, of the latest version of his tree stand. In fact, in 2000, he sold off his inventory and decided to close up shop until a reporter wrote about his product, and Premier Christmas Tree Stands was once more.

Although sales have been fairly low, Claas still believes wholeheartedly in his product. And his converted customers agree, according to reviews shared on his website.

"I'll never have to buy another stand, nor will I ever have to fight with putting up another Christmas tree!"

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I appreciate the green infrastructure of our municipality (Rooting for trees, Oct. 29) and can celebrate Tree Appreciation Day on Nov. 2, but when is some sense going to prevail with the Garry Oak Meadows Preservation Society?

Earlier this year a large branch came down on Neil Street, fortunately not injuring anyone. Since its removal, two outer trees at neighbouring houses were deemed dangerous enough to be cut down. My house is just north of these three and has a large tree in its driveway which, I consider, to be very dangerous. Some years ago it was the featured tree on a leaflet produced by the Garry Oak Preservation Society, showing the dangers of allowing ivy to cover trees.

As a result, I cut back all the ivy revealing that about one-third of the bark had been stripped away. Further, there are no branches on the north and west sides as the utility companies have stripped those sides for their cables. Thus, all the heavy branches are leaning toward my house. Yet further, my driveway is cracking up rather badly, more each year, showing root movement below my ground.

I have approached Oak Bay council but no one is willing to give permission for the removal of the tree. I guess it wont be important enough until a branch comes crashing through my front bedroom or, hopefully not, someone is killed. Surely some sense can prevail before that and someone will make a responsible decision.

Gareth Evans

Oak Bay

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Nov. 10, 2014, 4:46 p.m.

Electricity companies have been given the power to remove or cut trees on private land and charge the owners for it, if the company decides the trees may be a bushfire risk.

Electricitycompanies have been given the power to remove or cut trees on private land and charge the owners for it, if the company decides the trees may be a bushfire risk.

Network providers can take the steps if a property owner fails to remove a tree the company has told them to chop.

The move comes as the state government has been forced to review controversial new laws allowing landowners to remove any tree within 10 metres of their homes, if they are near bushfire-prone land.

Those laws have been criticised as being an overly blunt instrument that has allowed the clearing of trees in coastal areas to improve water views.

The latest law, also in the name of bushfire risk mitigation, would give electricity companies the power to override environmental protection, threatened species or national parks laws.

Power companies will not need permission to enter private land on a particular day, and they will not be liable for any additional damage done to the property while acting under this power.

The definition of bushfire-prone land is the same as under the previous new tree clearing rules: fire risk maps approved by the Rural Fire Service. These maps mostly describe areas that are indisputably bushfire-prone, but have been criticised for quirks that include some coastal areas that have never burned, such as parts of Mosman and beachside Gerroa.

Under the new laws, passed with the help of the Opposition last week, electricity companies can now identify trees they decide could make the network operators electricity works become a potential cause of bushfire. They then direct the landowner as to the works required, and give them 30 days to perform it to the companys specifications.

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