At a city council meeting this month, I think I heard that someone had complained about “dead trees” in downtown Albany. With nothing better to do on a Saturday evening bike ride, I went looking for these trees.
Albany’s street trees were not on my mind on Jan. 28, but then I came across this broken specimen on southwest 12th Avenue, just west of Takena Street.
How do you keep street trees from damaging the sidewalk? You plant them in pots.
The Albany neighborhood between Periwinkle Elementary School and Waverly Drive is about to lose its mature street trees. At least one homeowner wishes the city would leave the trees be.
To the casual observer, the 700 block of Elm Street in Albany may look a little bare these days. A couple of good-size elm trees are no longer there.
The day before Thanksgiving, a couple of signs caught my eye. They were attached to two trees in the 500 block of Washington Street.
A subdivision of planned ‘entry-level’ houses
The streets have been paved, trees have been planted, and even the mail boxes are ready in the Honey Grove Subdivision in East Albany. Houses will come next.
Tags: Honey Grove subdivision, housing, middle housing, street trees, tree planting