This story has been updated. The Avondale Estates City Commission has a packed June 16 work session agenda. It includes a discussion about a request for proposals to improve Willis Park and an item called ...
Avondale Estates is offering additional time for residents who might be interested in joining the city’s Tree Ordinance Ad Hoc Committee. The original deadline of Nov. 26 has been extended to Friday, Dec. 5, “In order ...
Live in Avondale? Like trees? Listen up. The city is taking applications for its Tree Ordinance Ad Hoc Committee. There are 12 spots available. Committee members will be asked to study … – Residential tree ordinances ...
Avondale Estates Mayor Terry Giager said commissioners will work to revise the city’s tree ordinance, an issue that’s likely to invite controversy. Giager has his own personal reservations about the issue. He believes that the government ...
India Woodson hopped in her city-issued pickup truck on a Tuesday afternoon, turning down the gospel music on the radio so she could speak into her phone. Decatur’s new landscape infrastructure coordinator – or, to ...
Avondale Estates may soon follow Decatur’s lead by pursuing a stronger tree ordinance. During the Aug. 20 city work session, resident Martha McDermott told commissioners that there’d been an alarming amount of clear-cutting in the ...
Decatur City Commissioners on July 7 adopted a new fee schedule as part of recently-enacted regulations on tree removal. The hunt for an arborist to enforce those regulations continues. City Manager Peggy Merriss said that ...
When it was finally over, Decatur’s new tree ordinance passed with relatively little fanfare. Commissioners on May 19 voted unanimously to approve it, even though polling among residents showed strong opposition to it. The new ...
The city of Decatur on May 9 released an updated draft of a proposed tree ordinance that will provide more oversight over tree removal in the city. City Commissioners will consider adopting it on May ...
Decatur City Commissioners on Monday took a few more whacks at a proposed ordinance that would place new restrictions on tree removal in the city. The ordinance will appear on the commission’s May 19 agenda. Decatur ...