To the Editor:
The latest wisdom coming from City Hall is the “upgrade” of School Street —the only few blocks in downtown where you dare to walk because of the comfort and cooling the mature pistache trees afford when it’s 100F. For the proposed upgrade, 55 trees could be cut down.
For twenty years, while I was a member of Mendocino County Releaf and the Tree Advisory Group for the City of Ukiah, I urged the City to give the pistache more “breathing room”: ideally, pave the sidewalks, or at least, open up a strip between the trees and the curb and top with sand or crushed granite; this would allow more air and water to reach the roots, thus help prevent desperate roots from lifting sidewalks or foundations.
But the City’s tree “care” consists of waiting until problems arise, then cut down the “offenders”. Between 2012 and 2020, the City cut down 160 trees, of which only 60 were replaced, and the record has not improved since then.
Already late Judy Pruden, community leader and Main Street Program organizer, bemoaned that Ukiah is full of saplings that never reach their full potential because of neglect, abuse, and premature death. Of the 300 trees that the Releaf volunteers planted and cared for along State Street 20 years ago, about 100 were cut down for the 2021/22 remodel.
Looks like the City wants to do on School Street what they did on State Street, which they are so proud of (The new tree plantings look good now, but they will start declining once they reach the root barriers and have used up the potting soil in their small tree wells; they also will cause “problems” for awnings, signage, and traffic because they are not being trained/pruned to the correct height and shape).
A petition on change.org, urging the City to preserve the School Street trees, received almost 3,000 signatures and dozens of comments. Despite the outcry, the City will follow their usual playbook: give empty promises, hold meaningless workshops, hire “experts” to tell them what they want to hear —then proceed with their plans. This duplicity and disdain for the public continues because there are no consequences for their generous paychecks and comfortable retirement.*
-Bruni Kobbe, Ukiah
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