LA PALMA : Replacement Trees Demanded by City
The City Council is demanding replacements for six city-owned trees recently cut down at a housing complex.
City officials said the trees were on a public right of way facing Crescent Avenue near Santa Margarita Lane. A maintenance contractor for the La Palma Village Homeowners Assn. cut down the trees about two months ago, the city says.
The issue came before the City Council on Tuesday night. City Engineer Ismile H. Noorbaksh told the council that the homeowners’ association should pay the estimated $730 cost of planting new trees.
Neil W. Christensen, treasurer of the homeowners’ association, told the council the housing complex did not know the trees were city-owned.
“It was not our intent to violate any laws,” Christensen said.
He asked the City Council to share the cost of planting new trees.
By unanimous vote, the council directed Noorbaksh to work out a tree-planting and maintenance agreement with the homeowners’ association. The council said the agreement would not permit the city to share in the costs.
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