An aerial shot of Logan Park, including the row of poplars. Photo by ODT.

As the chop looms, plans to remove 12 established poplars in Logan Park Dr have fired up Dunedin residents, some of whom say the decision appears to be out of the blue and even ''horrifying''.

But the Dunedin City Council says the removal of the trees, which will come down next week, is part of a 2007 plan to redevelop Logan Park.

This included the eventual removal, and partial replacement, of the entire avenue of poplars.

The original plan was to remove the 12 Ontario poplars about five years ago, but the move was delayed for various reasons.

The council says the trees are to be removed mainly because they shade the University Oval cricket ground and because the space is needed for sports fields.

Many people have contacted the ODT since Tuesday's story about felling the trees.

It is understood council staff have also received calls.

Concerns aired range from a loss of ambience, to whether the options had been fully canvassed, to giving in to sporting codes' demands and confusion about process.

Stephen MacKnight, of Dunedin, said the trees significantly added to the character of Logan Park, and the University Oval in particular, and their removal would greatly affect that.

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Logan Park tree removal sparks anger

Published: September 11, 2014 | Last Modified: September 12, 2014 07:47PM

By Eric Vo Record-Journal staff

WALLINGFORD Phase two of the towns tree planting program is moving forward, but history is repeating itself as Wallingford Center Inc. is again asking town officials to delay the removal of trees downtown. WCI officials would prefer the town to wait until after Celebrate Wallingford is held next month.

Public Works Director Henry McCully, who is also the towns tree warden, made the decision earlier this week to remove 38 pear and oak trees in downtown Wallingford. The trees were planted in the mid-1990s along Center Street from Route 5 to North Main Street.

McCully and Mayor William W. Dickinson Jr. did not return a call for comment Thursday.

With no time specified from McCully, its unclear when the town will begin to remove Center Street trees. The first phase lasted several months, however.

Wallingford Center Inc. officials said theyve asked the tree warden to delay the tree removal until after Celebrate Wallingford. The festival will be held Oct. 4 and 5.

We would rather have all of the trees not be removed at all. Were holding that position, WCI President Steve Lazarus said. With that said, were asking for a delay in removing the trees until after Celebrate Wallingford that certainly makes sense.

Dickinson said previously the trees have to be replaced every 15 years because they grow too large, blocking signs and store fronts. The tree roots also cause sidewalks to become damaged.

The Center Street trees will be replaced with pear and cherry trees, and town officials said the new species will improve the aesthetics of the downtown area.

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Yelp! Baton Rouge needed the public's help after a limb from a dead oak tree crashed through there roof and the tree threatened the rest of their building.

The group needed money to repair the roof and to have the dead oak tree removed. It was going to cost about $4,500.

The tree limb crashed through the roof of their rescue house on August 22. As of September 9, they have raised $4,700, which is enough for the tree removal, but other repairs also need to be funded.

Any donations made that are not used for the tree removal or repairs go back to the stray dogs the group rescues.

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The object of this is to report a loss, in progress.

When a class graduates, a quarter of the population vanishes. For members of the graduated class who stay into the new academic year, the effect is strange. The street is full, at once, of unfamiliar faces. What had become a village over four years becomes what it is a downtown district of a small city, a campus overrun for part of the year. A new class comes in, replaces the old class. The University, which is something beyond us, rolls on.

Even administrators and staff, faculty, trustees, chairs, dominions, what have you, peer in for a while, do their work and in more stately rhythm take their leave. There is no permanent living authority to oversee this passage of time. Nothing even to attest to it. The University. Yale, its called, because of a donor. Yale, because its here in this city, in these buildings. Yale, because of a mascot, a color, a yearly tradition or two.

To what is it all fixed? Three centuries have passed. Connecticut Hall remains. In three more centuries, barring apocalypse, Harkness will remain along with Woolsey, Sterling and whatever else. Stone is the material of choice. We prize it for its permanence. Take the Woolsey War Memorial, full of supple marble. Its guarded by heavy doors and warmly lit at all hours. Take its ceiling vault of Mediterranean blue. In decades, should you visit, this will be exactly as it was. The whisper-soft sacrarium in the center of the palm. If any place could mean Yale, for its endurance and memory, its watchfulness over the human current, this could be it.

Sometime over the summer in August? in July? with no fanfare or protest, Yale removed a tree from Cross Campus. For beautification, for disease, for sightlines to Sterling (to speak of fanfare), for whatever reason. Whos to say what kind of tree it was? Now its a stump. A roundish organic thing the size of a coffee table, barely visible above the grass. If you like, you can crouch beside it and count, with a finger, the fifty-odd rings of its existence. You can stand atop it and, gazing heavenward, taste the fifty-odd years of a unique former life. A place with its own colors and yearly traditions.

As of last Thursday this was true, the stump was there. I walked past on Friday to find a large hole covered with particleboard, cordoned off with caution tape. I walked past on Saturday to find a new tree. A young elm, 20 or 30 feet tall. Its leaves are turning prematurely.

The speed of all this should be more disturbing.

The State of Connecticut requires that a paper notice be posted on a tree before its removal. Concerned citizens are given ten days to report their objections in writing. If even one letter is received, a public hearing must be scheduled. Perhaps a notice wasnt required because the tree was on Yales property. Perhaps a notice did go up, but since it was summer and Cross Campus was full of high school students and tourists, no one bothered. Perhaps this was savvy planning. Some would call it a low trick. But each year, a quarter of the people who might have cared anyway disappears. And each year afterward, a quarter more. Trees come out. New trees are planted. The University, insensate, rolls on.

Vincent Tolentino is a seniorin Pierson College. Contact him atvincent.tolentino@yale.edu.

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TOLENTINO: Notice of tree removal

After careful review and consideration of public safety concerns, the City has decided to remove four of the 18 mature Sugar Gum eucalyptus trees from the public right of way in the 100 block of E Avenue.

The nearly 60-foot-tall trees provide beauty and shade but they also pose an unacceptable risk to public safety.The City has worked tirelessly to maintain its urban forest of more than 8,700 trees that grow on public areas, including parkways. Coronado became a Tree City USA in 1984 for its active urban forest management program and, in 1993, formed the Street Tree Committee to provide input to the City Council and educate the public on the role trees play in the urban environment. The Committee also maintains the Tree Master Plan and a list of approved street trees.

Coronado actively monitors, maintains and inspects its trees, particularly the larger ones. The City does not treat tree removals lightly. However, public safety is the Citys highest priority.

Eucalyptus trees are known to drop branches in the summer or to fall over without warning. Several California cities have had serious injuries, even deaths, due to falling trees and limbs. With some limbs weighing hundreds of pounds and trees more than a ton, the risk of keeping the four trees is considerable and not worth taking.

In response to a concerned resident, the City conducted an assessment of its 31 eucalyptus trees. The Citys certified arborist found that all but four trees in the 100 block of E Avenue presented a low level of risk. The four exceptions presented a risk calling for their removal. The arborist found that wind gusts of 30 mph could overcome the load bearing capacity of the trees. Trees eventually need to be removed and replaced toward the end of their useful life in the landscape. The four trees to be removed were found to have one or more of the following conditions: decay; recent trunk failure; multiple co-dominant trunks; poor structure with decayed wounds; irregular decay patterns; reduced tree crowns.

Within a few weeks, the trees will be removed. Careful maintenance over the life of a tree can reduce hazards. The City will prune several of the remaining eucalyptus trees to improve their health and lower the risk of the trees falling or losing limbs.

Residents who live on or around the 100 block of E Avenue have been notified via a hand-delivered notification letter. A meeting will be held for local residents on Wednesday, Sept. 10, to address questions and concerns.City staff will discuss the matter of replacement possibilities at the Citys Street Tree Committee meeting on Thursday, Sept. 11, to obtain the committees recommendation for the selection of any new trees. The City Council has requested that another species of eucalyptus be considered. The community is invited to attend.

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In an unusual move, Derry Township supervisors have withdrawn their conditional approval of a subdivision plan because they were not happy with what they called "extreme tree removal."

Supervisor chairman John Foley said supervisors had received many complaints about the Woodland Hills project, a five lot subdivision for single family homes by developer Swatara Station Partners.

Foley said the disturbed area of the land was much more than supervisors had allowed in their July conditional approval. The development is also not compliant with the erosion and sedimentation control plan, he said.

Supervisor Sandy Ballard said supervisors took the step because of the "unexpected and unplanned tree cutting."

Chuck Emerick, community development director, said he could not remember another time supervisors had withdrawn an approval.

According to Foley, "it's a pretty big statement."

"We felt supervisors were not dealt with honestly," he said.

Representatives from Swatara Station Partners did not wish to comment.

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