Subscribe Here for News & EventsTALKBACK: Trimming City Palm Trees?
June 30th, 2008
This from TB:
Along Montezuma and Obregon the city owns palm trees. The city is in charge to trim them. This is my 3rd year with a pool in the front, at Obregon. But this is the first year I have to clean the filter almost every day.
As we try to remember, they got trimmed before the school was over for the summer. But the people in city hall insist that they get trimmed in July.
Anyone else have an opinion?
June 30th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Although Jim Cornett (naturalist) just wrote a big article in the Desert Sun citing ten reasons NOT to trim our palms (the fan palms, that is) I must agree with TB that the seeds/pollen are a real hazard for pools and their filters. I don’t have City palms near me, but I have my own palms trimed about this time each year, taking out the seed shoots only. That way we get those cute palm “skirts” but not the mess of the seeds and pollen. Take heart, TB, July begins tomorrow. Maybe the city will put you first on their list!
July 1st, 2008 at 3:56 am
How can you tell which are city palms and which belong to homeowners (other than if homeowner plants them)??
July 1st, 2008 at 6:38 am
The city has those high uggly palm trees. And they are only at Obregon and Montezuma. When they die, the city puts in new.
When city hall says July, I think they mean July 2009. There is a dirt lot across the street that is a fire hazard. Been fighting with the city for 3 years now. Last date was June 20, 2008. Nothing happend.
July 1st, 2008 at 8:54 am
I’m at the other end (top of the cove) of Montezuma, and today there’s a crew working down the portion of the Bear Creek path behind the homes….the supervisor says they’re city contracted to cut a firebreak.
They’re trimming low hanging trees and cutting down tumbleweed. Good! The city neglected the area for entirely too long.
July 14th, 2008 at 7:05 am
Yes, while they neglect their own trimming, they cite homeowners for the same thing. Maybe you should just call code enforcement on the city, just make sure your trash cans are not in view from the street, or they will retaliate by fining you for that. Code enforcement seems to be a backwards and unchecked entity with little to no consistency. While one home is cited for a trash can barely visable, another home directly across the street has their cans still on the street. Two houses down, a city employee parks in his yard. Don’t get me started about the 12 foot cock off of Eisenhower. Trash can visability seems to be high priority, but only in some kind of random lottery. Glad the crime has all but eliminated so we have these important issues to deal with in the Cove. Sorry about the tangent, good luck with the trees…
July 14th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Thanks John,
I have the same experience as you. Desert Sun had me even on the first page in the local section. The code officer was hasseling me and even my neighbors when I was building a pool in the front. The officer was standing across the treet to take pictures. He was parked in the shade of a fire hazard.
I just talked to another neighbor when they trim the palm trees. His immidiatly answer was May and June. I am threating to cut the palm trees on my property down. I have a chain saw.
I have feeling the responsible people in the city hall is immune to our complaining.