With all this talk of trees, and hordes of people driving around to look at the new trees ( ) I thought I might mention this. We will offer the opportunity to every address where a tree can be planted. Once we plant every street, we will take another look at streets where we planted and revisit the addresses that refused a tree. I’m not going into reasons, just accept that in some places trees were not planted.

Maybe in 3-4 years when we have planted maybe another 500+ trees some of those properties will have changed hands and the new owners might be more receptive to a new tree. Maybe it’s still the same owner and they have changed their minds and will accept the tree.

The registered letters cost $5.71 cents each. The mailing cost for this planting was $1427.50. That’s the cost of 3 trees. I think we had about a 6-8% refusal rate so that’s about 16-18 trees that were refused. You will be able to see who refused by driving down these streets and looking for obvious gaps.  Sometimes it’s just not possible to plant a tree given sidewalk width issues, proximity to driveways and corners etc. so factor that in as well.

Anyway, just wanted to say that we will come back around again and see if we can fill these gaps.

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