weekender the inner city FRI 4 APR 2014 • Issue 181
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Trades & Services Tra Need help at your place this weekend? p.26
Notice of Destruction Trees to be removed but residents concerned for local wildlife CHRIS CONNOLLY
We speak with creator Travis Pastrana p.21
Youth Week movie night p.14
Residents protest Tempe locals not happy with bus services p.6
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arrickville residents have started noticing signs appearing on trees in their streets advising of “Notification of Destruction”. Resident Mary Keep is particularly concerned about a large gum tree scheduled for removal from Pine Street, Marrickville. “We know it is home to hundreds of birds and consider it to be a beautiful feature of the street,” Ms Keep said. Marrickville Council said approximately 100 trees had been identified in the Street Tree Inventory as posing an unacceptable level of risk to public and property. These trees will be removed in April-May and replacement trees planted in May-June 2014. Community activist and author of the ‘Saving Our Trees’ blog, Jacqueline Yetzotis, said quite a few distressed residents have contacted her about tree loss in their street. “That Council says they will be replaced is not appeasing them, as a young sapling cannot replace a tall tree filled with birds,” Ms Yetzotis said. “To do otherwise removes food and habitat for wildlife. It also removes beauty from the streetscape as well as the many benefits mature trees provide.” A Marrickville Council spokesperson said all trees identified for removal are defective or have some element of quantified risk: “Council’s approach is that if the tree has a high potential of failure it should be removed”.
Pine Street’s Mary Keep in front of one of the trees set to be chopped down
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