Trees removal by Seattle City Light in North Rose Hill Woodlands Park

[Wesley Zhang]

City Council members, Park Maintenance Division, and Public Works:

A lot of trees were cut in the North Rose Hill Woodlands Park on August 7, 2012.  I talked to Park Maintenance Division and learned that Seattle City Light did the work.

The existing Seattle City Light power line is marked in red line in the attached treecut.png and where the trees were cut is marked in orange.  As you can see, the two locations are so far apart and it is very unlikely that it is for maintenance of the existing power line.

Park Maintenance Division provides a contact of Seattle City Light, David 206 386 1902, but I haven't been able to reach him for any information.

I'm reaching out to you in the hope that you can inform me and the community what the tree removal is really for.  In addition, if it is anything, the community should be well informed before any more drastic change happens.  What is the proper way to get Seattle City Light to tell us what is happening here?

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Wes

[Wesley Zhang]

Hi Jason,

Thank you for explaining this!  This certainly makes sense and thank you for addressing the threat to Mr. Harris's property. 

One more concern expressed by my neighbors is whether the removal and the potential disruption it might cause were evaluated by an arborist.  I can follow up with you on this specific concern (without cc'ing everyone)

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Jason Filan <JFi...@kirklandwa.gov> wrote:

Hi Wes,

 

Thank you for your e-mail.  Appreciate you as a Neighbor contacting us with regards to the tree work.

 

The work that was done at Woodlands this week was follow up on our part to address (2) cottonwood trees.  Over the past 5 years we have responded to calls for service with these two specific trees.  One of them had a fairly significant lean towards the neighbors house and they had both dropped large limbs multiple times causing damage to Mr. Harris property.

 

A couple weeks ago Mr. Harris experienced another large limb landing on his fence causing damage.   It is not our policy to remove trees unless they pose a threat to person and or property.  Mr. Harris has been a patient neighbor…..after this past incident we felt it necessary to address the trees and decided to “habitat” them.

 

Hopefully this has made some sense.  Sorry for any confusion that we may have cause. There is some planned maintenance that Seattle City Light will be doing later this summer to keep the transmission line corridor in good order.  

 

Please feel free to contact me at your convenience if you have and questions and or concerns.

 

Regards,

 

Jason Filan

Parks Manager

City of Kirkland

(425) 587 - 3341

 

From: Wesley Zhang [mailto:wesley...@gmail.com]

Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 2:42 PM
To: City Council

Cc: Jason Filan; Jeff Rotter; Nicci Osborn; Cathy Anderson; PublicWorks; ne95...@googlegroups.com; Margaret Carnegie; don...@yahoo.com
Subject: Trees removal by Seattle City Light in North Rose Hill Woodlands Park

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Wes

[Christine Sammons]

Thanks for following up Wes ~ really appreciate it on behalf of the neighborhood! :)

Christine Sammons

PSS Company - Accounting & Bookkeeping

425-822-4767 Office Phone

425-822-4419 Office Fax

psscompany...@comcast.net

cmsa...@mac.com

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