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The City of Redding is currently holding four meetings to get public comment on the proposed sale of city-owned land along the Sacramento River at Turtle Bay. Unfortunately, very few people opposed to the sale of this public land for extensive development next to the river have spoken out. The sale of the land for…
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,…
This is a long process, but we have been contacting city officials behind the scenes by phone, email and Zoom as well as industry officials. Unfortunately for the last 9 months we have been unable to give presentations to meetings of various civic groups due to COVID and it is hard to collect signatures during…
City of Redding Street Tree List Approved. SEA Tree Committee provided input. Using substantial input from SEA’s Tree Committee the City of Redding has updated its Street Tree List. The Tree Committee met a number of times before coming up with a list of trees we recommended to be added to the tree list and…
The Shasta Lake City Council approved a new Tree Conservation Ordinance at a City Council meetingon October 6. The 2004 tree ordinance was enacted following wholesale cutting of an entire hillside of all trees and the outrage led to a new tree ordinance. The old ordinance required planting of 3 new trees for every tree…
The Shasta Lake Planning Commission approved a disappointingly weak and inadequate Tree Conservation Ordinance at its September 3 meeting. Now the ordinance will go the Shasta Lake City Council for approval, rejection or revision. While the ordinance does require mitigation for removal of oak trees, it is greatly inadequate. It will require the planting of…
