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...protect street trees that are in the path of construction.” In a letter delivered yesterday, Healy said such concerns already fall under a Massachusetts law allowing city governments to charge an assailant who “wantonly injures, defaces or destroys a shrub, plant, [or] tree?? with a $500 fine and the cost of the defaced shrubbery...
...removed then? And why did the City’s experts prune the tree at about the same time? Second, in 2005, when construction began at the Grant Street site, why hadn’t Harvard provided a “tree surround” to protect the tree??s trunk and buttress roots from the heavy equipment? Was it because the construction workers and their supervisors already knew of Harvard’s decision to remove the tree-well before the City’s tree-removal hearing on Sept. 5? In any case, the extensive damage...
Harvard’s senior director of community relations, Mary Power, however, said the 110-year-old tree??s decay began long before the University made plans on Grant Street...
...said that a study had found rot at the tree??s base in early 2004, and experts concluded the ash was a “safety hazard...
...tree no longer grows on Grant Street. The tree??which stood near Leverett Towers—was cut down yesterday after a report from City of Cambridge arborist Kelly Writer pronounced the tree a danger to public safety, according to Alan Joslin, a member of the Riverside Oversight Committee. “It was decided that by virtue of the condition of the tree, the tree produced a presence of danger and it is to be removed,” Joslin said last night at a meeting of the Riverside Oversight Committee, a watchdog group that advises...