[Vision2020] Fw: Avista & Trees

[Linda Pall]

Dear April and Others with 'problem' and PROBL:EM!!! trees,

My best suggestion is to approach Roger Blanchard, the City's arborist and a
very kind and understanding person with good sense for what works for people
AND trees with your problem and any suggestions for solutions you might
have. Talk it through with him. You might propose tree replacement or
discuss some landscape plan that is more to your liking and needs... showing
how it would improve the look of your property and enhance the neighborhood,
producing a win/win.

Roger has a lot of good ideas for what works and what doesn't... he shares
your view that some trees, when damaged by weather or pests, should be
removed. "The City" is not anxious to inhibit the interests of property
owners: our policy interest is the promotion of healthy, beautiful street
trees in the right of way that will benefit the property owner and "the
City."

Your presence when trees on your property are being pruned is not for the
purpose of annoying Avista wokres. It gives the opportunity to avoid
misunderstandings that might not be able to be rememdied: once the branch is
gone, it's gone.

It's been my experience that Avista workers are more than willing to find a
collaborative solution that meets the company's and the homeowner's needs.

Give us all another chance, April! We can work together!

All the best,

Linda Pall
Moscow City Council



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "April Fingerlos" <aprilf at fingerlos.net>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fw: Avista & Trees


> Since the trees are in the city right of way, and the home owners are not
allowed to removed them without a mountain of paperwork and permits, what
good does it do to be there, other than to needlessly annoy the Avista staff
(actually, likely subcontractors) trying to do their job?
>
> I'd LOVE it if they'd remove these two awful, poorly-place blue spruces in
my front yard, but my best hope is that they top them (yet again) so badly
that it can't recover, and that the tree will have to come down due to being
a public hazard.
>
> All previous owners of this house have tried to get the trees
removed--city said no every time. I got in trouble for removing a tree from
my BACK yard, after it split twice in two wind storms last fall, one time
falling against my house! I'm not even going to try to remove these two much
worse trees in my front yard, but I hope Avista can do what I can't!
>
> April
>
> April Fingerlos
> Moscow, ID
>
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