tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post6756083035308992395..comments2024-03-25T17:49:41.408-07:00Comments on Salem Breakfast on Bikes: Trees at Risk along New Police Station: Old Parking vs New ParkingSalem Breakfast on Bikeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15618055627843335993noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-88533077758085094882018-12-22T00:05:05.060-08:002018-12-22T00:05:05.060-08:00So the trees in the first picture from Facebook is...So the trees in the first picture from Facebook is old. The trees around the Police station lot are already gone. No approval was apparently needed. They just got taken out.<br /><br />Secondly, when UGM is built we can assume any trees in that lot will be cut down too!<br /><br />While the Police/City claim the actual landscape design is still in the works, we can assume that the new look will have many fewer trees than we lost already on that block. Losing all the trees on the next block is just making the area look barren and blighted by concrete.<br /><br />I was told by Deputy Chief Bellshaw that the reason they took away the parking in the "plaza" was for security reasons. You recall what happened to the Marion Courthouse? They worry about that happening to them. So, no parking AND also there will be barricades in the form of planters so that no vehicle can get close to the building. This is the world we live in... denuded and fortified.<br /><br />I do think that there are better solutions, but then again when you have an opportunity to do street work with 'found money' it is natural to try to sneak in as much pavement and concrete as you can. Too many decision makers think that a tree is a tree is a tree.<br /><br />I feel like we have not had enough justification for why they need all the parking spaces with the police station coming in. This area is too far from downtown to justify the rationale that the City has given so far. Susann Kaltwassernoreply@blogger.com