Let's not forget, the City hired a tree cop to enforce the Tree Law, so there's that too.
One of the reasons I chose to live in Evanston rather than some godforsaken subdivision is that I wouldn't have to deal with a HOA that would tell me what I could and couldn't do with my property. Instead, we have a City that is becoming an enormous HOA.
Like George Washington, I cannot tell a lie. I hired some random guys to chop down an enormous apple tree in my yard and I didn’t ask or tell no one. Except you guys now. I ripped out another tree because I thought it was stupid where it was. But funnily enough, when I asked the COE to plant a tree in front of my house on the parkway, they said there was not enough room. Even though an arborist said it would be fine. After all, trees grow close to one another all the time in the wild. I don’t want this city telling me what to do on my property- I am thankful I don’t have busybody neighbors who call 911 on the leaf blowers or me, for hiring unskilled labor to fell a huge tree sans permit. And for Pete’s sake- would it have killed the city to have waited 3 weeks for the woodpeckers to fledge?
Let's not forget, the City hired a tree cop to enforce the Tree Law, so there's that too.
One of the reasons I chose to live in Evanston rather than some godforsaken subdivision is that I wouldn't have to deal with a HOA that would tell me what I could and couldn't do with my property. Instead, we have a City that is becoming an enormous HOA.
Like George Washington, I cannot tell a lie. I hired some random guys to chop down an enormous apple tree in my yard and I didn’t ask or tell no one. Except you guys now. I ripped out another tree because I thought it was stupid where it was. But funnily enough, when I asked the COE to plant a tree in front of my house on the parkway, they said there was not enough room. Even though an arborist said it would be fine. After all, trees grow close to one another all the time in the wild. I don’t want this city telling me what to do on my property- I am thankful I don’t have busybody neighbors who call 911 on the leaf blowers or me, for hiring unskilled labor to fell a huge tree sans permit. And for Pete’s sake- would it have killed the city to have waited 3 weeks for the woodpeckers to fledge?