Palouse Mall mauls the Palouse

[bill london <london@moscow.com>]

    Did anyone else notice the change in the planting along the front of
the Palouse Mall?
    Sunday afternoon, the destructo crew was just finishing up.   The
shrubbery along the highway frontage strip (that separates the parking
lot from the Moscow-Pullman Highway) is now virtually devoid of
shrubbery.  The trees seem to still all be there, but the dozens of
shrubs (up to 10 feet tall, as I recall) are completely gone.
    Why?
    I thought that the mall's plan to ravage that planting strip was
stopped a few months ago, and that no new plan had been presented.
    Was this shrubbery destruction OK'ed by the city's Tree Committee or
by the City Council?
    BL