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Your General Plan Comments Have Made a Difference
Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik The Development Services/Planning Department has listened to many critical comments made regarding the Draft General Plan and because of those comments, they have strengthened some of the language. Much of the draft plan had phrases such as “consider, strive to, or work to” all of which are so vague as…
City of Redding’s New General Plan Comment Period
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Burning Logging Slash in the Shingletown Area
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Redding Loses Street Trees on Liberty Street
Photos by David Ledger – above photo: sidewalk buckling from tree roots on Liberty Street Recently, all the street trees on a long block of Liberty Street next to Trinity Street in Redding were cut down, however, it was for the right reasons. All the trees were Liquidambar, a tree with very shallow roots. The…
Trees for Concrete Sidewalks.
SEA received a complaint that the City of Redding was going to cut down seven shade trees at 10th and West Streets to make way for new sidewalks. We contacted Public Works and they looked at the corner again with an engineer and decided they could work around some of the large sycamore trees they…
