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cdavidg4 t1_irxqb5g wrote

Reply to comment by JaredSeth in Stumped New Yorkers Wait Years to Get Trees Planted — But You Can Pay $1,800 to Cut the Line - THE CITY by space_______kat

There's a whole set of requirements for planting a street tree. Some of the requirements like offsets from utilities change and mean replacing an old tree is no longer possible. DEP keeps increasing the offsets from their stuff.

https://www.nycgovparks.org/pagefiles/53/Tree-Planting-Standards.pdf

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JaredSeth t1_irxspit wrote

I suppose the requirements on our street might have changed. It's unfortunate because the stretch of the block directly in front of our building is left as the only one without trees now.

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