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April 24, 2015 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com • 3A Haystack Heights to lose nine high-risk trees Arborist report finds health concerns The city’s arborist, Will Caplinger, examined the grove twice and recom- mended that nine of the trees along East Chinook Avenue be eliminated. The lingering VWXPSZLOOEHÀXVKFXW Of the nine trees, six are Sitka spruce between 25 and 125 feet tall, and three are western hemlock between 20 and 60 feet tall, according to Caplinger’s report. The troubling trees show signs of deteriorating health and stability, including, in some instances, basal decay. Some are either dead or dying. “We believe these trees to be a danger to our family, our home and to others that live nearby,” the Friddells wrote in a letter to the city. They declined to speak with the Gazette. The trees, left over from when the area was initially cleared, also appear to have been damaged years ago, pos- sibly when the neighborhood roads were built, Grassick said. “They are now starting to show that damage as the trees have gotten bigger.” By Erick Bengel Cannon Beach Gazette Two trees recently toppled onto the same house in Hay- stack Heights in fairly quick succession, so the public works department now plans to remove from the neighbor- hood nine potentially hazard- ous trees, which are standing in the city right of way in the next couple of months. In terms of risk manage- ment, the city may face some serious consequences “if we don’t proceed with the re- moval,” Public Works Direc- tor Dan Grassick told the City Council at its Tuesday work session. Last fall, a tree in the city right of way fell onto the property at 379 Elk Run Av- enue during a storm, striking the house with a glancing blow. The property owners, Sue and Doug Friddell — second-home owners who live in Issaquah, Wash. — repaired the damage and had the tree removed. Then, during the storm of Jan. 4 and 5, the trunk of a second tree, also in the city right of way, snapped several feet from the base, rotated and clipped the side of the house on the way down, damaging the eaves, gutter and front porch, Grassick said. (The tree is still in the Friddells’ yard, chopped up and waiting WR EH XVHG DV ¿UHZRRG QHDU the splintered stump.) Consequently, the Frid- GHOOV ZKR ZHUH ³GH¿QLWHO\ concerned,” asked the city to evaluate the other 13 trees clustered around their house in the right of way, which starts about 10 feet east of the couple’s property, Grassick said. Publisher Steve Forrester Interim Editor Dave Fisher Reporter Erick Bengel Advertising Manager Betty Smith Replanting Though Grassick’s presen- tation was for the council’s in- formation only, he brought the matter before them because the project is “much bigger than our normal tree-removal request,” he said. In addition, he said the project would “make a differ- ence on that corner on terms of look and appearance.” After notifying nearby property owners, the city re- ceived one letter of opposi- tion from residents who wrote that the tree loss will “change the character of the neigh- borhood!” The city advised Production Manager John D. Bruijn Circulation Manager Samantha McLaren Advertising Sales Laura Kaim Wendy Richardson ERICK BENGEL PHOTO The tree-beleaguered home of Sue and Doug Friddell, who live at 379 Elk Run Avenue, has been hit twice with falling trees within the last several months. (The logs in the foreground are the remains of the second one.) The public works depart- ment plans to thin the grove on city right of way within the next couple of months. them of the appeal process but didn’t receive a response, Grassick said. The city sometimes re- plants after removing trees from its rights-of-way, though “it’s not a hard-and-fast re- quirement,” Grassick noted. He cautioned against planting similar trees, ones that — like Sitka spruce and western hemlock — grow tall and develop sprawling limbs, EHFDXVHWKHFLW\PD\¿QGLW- self with similar problems as the ungainly specimens start to compete with the “built” environment. “I think it’s important that we actually put a species back that makes sense in our right of way, to actually main- tain some sort of street tree cover,” City Manager Brant CANNON BEACH GAZETTE The Cannon Beach Gazette is published every other week by EO Media Group. 1555 N. Roosevelt, Seaside, Oregon 97138 503-738-5561 • Fax 503-738-9285 www.cannonbeachgazette.com • email: editor@cannonbeachgazette.com SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Annually: $40.50 in county, $58.00 in and out ODOT removed the trees from its right of way because they leaned over the highway, potentially endangering driv- ers; the health of the trees, he said, was not a primary con- cern. “It was strictly a high- way maintenance issue,” he said. Memories of ODOT Though the Gazette previ- Caplinger’s report, Steidel ously reported that the trees said, includes the kind of de- ODOT took from the high- tailed analysis of the trees’ way were dead or dying, the health that he felt was missing department actually cut down from the Oregon Department healthy trees as well because of Transportation’s tree-re- they, too, could have slid moval project on U.S. High- down the embankment and/ way 101, which provoked a or fallen over, Grassick said. By contrast, all of the tar- NHUIXIÀHEHWZHHQ2'27DQG Cannon Beach residents last geted trees on East Chinook Avenue seem to suffer from month. However, Grassick noted the same maladies that caused that the Haystack Heights sit- the two trees to collapse onto uation is distinctly different: the Friddells’ home. Kucera said. Grassick said that public works will wait a year after the tree removal to determine if replanting should happen or if the four mature trees remaining — three Sitka spruces between 120 and 130 feet tall, and one 60-foot-tall western hemlock — will have to do. Much will depend on ZKHWKHU WKH FLW\ FDQ ¿QG D species that can coexist with the neighborhood’s high-den- sity development. “We want to make sure we know what it looks like when we’re done,” he said. Mayor Sam Steidel said it would be good for the city to have a policy that stipulates, if the city is going to maintain its rights-of-way, “we should do it in an aesthetic way.” He added that the parks and community services committee could explore dif- ferent vegetation options — such as salal or something hedge-like — to see “what could plant here nicely.” of county. THE NATIONAL AWARD-WINNING Postage Paid at: Cannon Beach, OR 97110 POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Cannon Beach Gazette, P.O. Box 210, Astoria, OR 97103 Copyright 2015 © Cannon Beach Gazette. Nothing can be reprinted or copied without consent of the owners. Coastal Advantage In “THE COURTYARD” @ 219 N. 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