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k 1 tJSTig:.,A000ST3t1997 =-1,- I , 'r • ::0 7':" ' According to Boti Hibschman, urban eeS services manager for the Planning and continued from page 1 Development Department, it did. t , dard set by a consortium of groups like Of the 40 trees removed from the site, ) - ' The More the International Society of Arborculture only three were street trees, he says. The and the national Shade Tree Commission, rest were either on or over the property Plamondon says. line. One of the trees, a large maple clas- E Prof the Ratings vary according the type, size, sified as a "heritage tree," was valued at location, health and performance of the more than $30,000. The city received a Nest �I est Egg species in a given geographical area., credit for the trees that it will plant after "It's similar to a real estate appraisal," the construction is finished, but even with Plamondon says. "There are many factors." 27 young trees to be planted on • the More A percentage of the value is based on . Charnelton Street, the old trees were D a tree's location — a factor he admits is worth more. Comfortable somewhat subjective. The city paid the difference — "If a tree like a sweetgum is located $26,942 — from funds budgeted into the under overhead wires and kept topped at project. The money went into a revenue th e Nest. 20 feet, it would have less value than if account; which dispenses appropriations it's right near a house," Plamondon says. for new tree planting. "How it adds or detracts to its site can "Cutting down a tree for a construe- J� / Financing the retirement change its value." tion project is similar to a traffic signal or home and lifestyle of your Dollar value is also related to the value a stoplight," Plamondon says. "If we dreams takes forethought. of the surrounding real estate. have to move a stoplight for a driveway, "If it's in an area of million dollar hous- someone has to pay for it. The trees do Call or visit A.G. Edwards es, that tree is going to have more value have value." today to ask for your free than a tree in an area of $100,000 houses," Springfield has a more relaxed • S guide, "Planning a Secure Plamondon says. "The value of the tree is approach towards tree cutting. related to the value of the neighborhood." "We go evaluate it and see what kind of Retirement. The driveway at the new South condition it's in," says Greg Ferschweiler, Umpqua Bank on the corner of 18th the city's maintenance supervisor who Avenue and Bailey Hill Road has a little deals with street trees. "If it's in good con- bend at its southern corner. The bend dition we probably won't let them cut it NVESTMENTS SINCE i goes around a tall, skinny oak tree down unless they have a good reason. But d escr i bed by South Umpqua senior vice we don't ha ve a tree purchase policy. president Gary Pierpoint as "scraggly." p olic y n -' „ We're more concerned that there's a new s a Downtown Eugene, The tree was valued by the city at tree in place, growing." en Corner of 1 ith and Oak about $2,500, Pierpoint says. Ferschweiler says that Springfield is "Because of the cost of taking down heading in the same direction as Eugene, 2 the tree, we didn't do it," he says. "We however. 343 -6511 paved around it." "Right now it's a tree for a tree," he The city of Eugene's cutting of 40 says. "But we want to get more control trees for the new Broadway Place parking over it. We don't want people taking Member SIPC 7390c garage and residential- retail development down trees for no reason. 1997 A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. RP- 211 -0697 "We want to keep our beautiful trees. has left some business owners scratching P _ - • their heads and wondering if the. city ; - But if it's a safety issue or a hazard, we'll _jumped through the sane hoops: , k help 'ern make it happen. " n Y 0 U DON'T Harry Houdini Was the Great Houdini any more talented after . 1 . 1 ► tic rhanaarl hic Hama Drnhahly not An"; ,,