Last month, construction crews with the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) were cutting down trees on the south side of Clark between W. 25th and Quigley to make way for a new water main as part of a larger streetscape improvement project. Layton made the local news when she hugged her tree and threatened to tie herself to it to prevent its destruction.
“This is a perfectly healthy tree,” she told Fox 8. “They can just trim it. There’s no reason to cut it down.”
She was assured by ODOT that a city arborist would inspect the tree to determine whether or not it could be saved. At issue, evidently, were the tree’s roots. To make way for the water lines, ODOT said it would have to hack away below ground, and the damage to the roots could destabilize the tree and cause it to topple.
As of Tuesday evening, the tree was still standing.
But according to ODOT, an arborist with the City of Cleveland has inspected the tree and informed Tammy Layton that it will have to go.
ODOT’s work water main work will include attacking the root system on three sides, and there’s no way that the tree can be salvaged. The ODOT contractor will give Layton the wood from the tree and will plant a new one on the tree lawn once work is complete.
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This article appears in Jun 19-25, 2019.
Buried lede: Cleveland has a “city arborist”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…catches breath….HAHAHAHAHA…wipes a tear…HAHAHA!
For a half dozen years I have asked the city to remove a dead tree, on their property, across from my home. Earlier this year they cut down the 12 adjacent live trees leaving the dead tree untouched.
So what do you want Sam? Good, clean, safe water or a pear tree? Whats the point? Stirring the pot as always. What a troublemaker.
And no one has anything to say about Michael symons eyesore where old Lolita used to be. Total scumbag move.