The Shasta Environmental Alliance will be discussing whether to work toward an actual Tree Ordinance for Shasta County at our next board meeting. Currently Shasta County has a “tree ordinance” that is entirely voluntary and urges preservation of trees during development and in general throughout the county but there are no requirements to preserve trees…
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…
We have made several complaints to the Redding Planning Department regarding what we see as violations of the Redding Tree Ordinance, but the response from the City has not always been complete. You may have seen the story on KRCR-TV regarding removal of trees on Park Marina Drive between the two ponds. In the story,…