Re: Palouse Mall landscaping

["Kenton Bird" <kentonbird@hotmail.com>]

Dear council members,
Thank you for your decision to delay a vote on the Palouse Mall's 
landscaping.  As the questions raised at the meeting Monday night indicated, 
there was too much last-minute information presented to allow thorough and 
thoughtful consideration of the plan.

I remain opposed to the removal of mature and healthy trees from the buffer 
strip along State Highway 8.  I do not accept the University of Idaho's 
position that "view lines" need to be provided to businesses at the mall, or 
that the proposal only widens existing openings.  Many of these openings did 
not exist before the illegal removal of vegetation in November of 2000.

While I applaud the proposal to increase the number of trees within the mall 
parking lot and along Farm Road, I fail to see the justification for 
removing and/or relocating this many trees from the buffer strip. Please 
review the proposal carefully before your decision on March 11.
Sincerely,
Kenton Bird
517 East B St.
Moscow





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