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The_Prince1513 t1_iu0dnpt wrote

Reply to comment by Dryheavemorning in It's an absolute shame how common and easy it is for developers to take down huge old growth trees in the city. by Zfusco

One I can think of in my neighborhood is the massive block-sized vacant warehouse in Olde Kensington between Master and Jefferson and Howard and Maascher. It's nice that it's being renovated and businesses will be moving in, but they re-did the sidewalk around the entire thing and tore down almost all the trees that surrounded it. Most of these trees were like 30 feet tall. There should have been more effort made to keep them.

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Dryheavemorning t1_iu0q9av wrote

Yeah I'm in the neighborhood too, I hope the ones they pruned back and hit with trucks on Mascher survive. Based on the renderings I think they plan to replant on Master but it does suck they got rid of at least a couple on Master.

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dotcom-jillionaire t1_iu0ud0c wrote

sometimes the trees prevent the sidewalks from being handled properly. what really sucks is the city had no idea what species to plant 150 years ago and now we have a lot of old beautiful trees that screw up our infrastructure/utilities/etc

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LakeSun t1_iu14xod wrote

That increases everyone's AC bill, it's like 20 degrees hotter.

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