The Conservation Advisory Council has funding to plant 24 street trees in 2023. A grant from National Grid is funding nine of the trees. The rest of the money is included in the city budget for 2023.
The CAC is soliciting tree locations for a 2023 planting. We are kicking off our "Keep Hudson Shady" campaign for sidewalk and street tree plantings. If you are a home owner and would like a tree to be installed, please fill out the attached form. If you do not own the home you are living in but would be happy to care for a tree, please also fill out the form and include the building owner's name and contact information. We will contact the building owner to get approval.
https://forms.gle/NDRXQBsAG7phFiAC8
Please note each location will be individually evaluated for appropriate species. All locations will be reviewed for utility conflicts. Please note there are no guarantees of a tree!
Owner must be responsible for tree care, watering, pruning, keeping the planting site weed-free.
Another way to support the CAC's tree planting efforts is to purchase a "Keep Hudson Shady" tote bag. They are available at the Trixie's Oven cookie table at the Hudson Farmers' Market, open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. this Saturday and next at the Elks Lodge, 201 Harry Howard Avenue.
Seems to me that one of the caveats of having a tree planted in front of your home is that you actually live there! "If you do not own the home you are living in [i.e. renting] but would be happy to care for a tree...", What happens when the renter moves out and the next one says they don't want the responsibility of taking care of the tree? Does it just die or is someone else going to take over the task? And doesn't the CAC have better things to do than track down absentee landlords for approval, like - say - plant trees? Come on people, think this through.
ReplyDeleteAgreed - no trees for renters. There are already far too many dead, dying and missing trees all over our sidewalks. Speaking of which, wouldn't it make sense to contact the owners of properties where trees holes are already available because of missing, dead or dying trees? Why cut out more concrete from our sidewalks when there are plenty of spots waiting for a tree to try again? These spaces should be a priority for new trees. I applaud the CAC's sidewalk tree efforts, but I think there is a bit of overzealousness. Think this through a bit more, indeed.
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Not sure how good my reading comprehension is, but it seems to me from reading the article that the owner needs to agree in addition to the renter, thus the responsibility if the renter moves would fall to the owner based on said agreement.
ReplyDeleteOkay, but most current landlords (read as AirBnB owners) live 2 hours away. Do you think they are going to travel up to Hudson to water a tree?
DeleteHasn't Hudson always been kinda ... 'shady'!
ReplyDeleteI think that's why they used the verb "keep" rather than "make."
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