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For the last 3 years I have been fighting city hall over getting one of their trees removed from in front of my house. Every time I call the forestry dept I get the same song and dance about how their budget is small and maybe they can get to it next year. This tree has been dead on the top half for the last 3 years. up till this year it has just been an eyesore and a nuisance picking up all of the dead twigs falling out of it. This past summer it dropped a 6" diameter branch on a car parked in front of my house causing damage to the car (no ones that I know). The police were involved so that there would be a record of it. I also contacted my alderman to complain about it. My alderman contacted the city forestry dept and they said they would try to get to it this winter. This last weekend it dropped a good size branch that just missed another parked car. the attached pics are of this latest branch and where it landed. I sent another email with these pics to the alderman and the Mayor, yesterday. Today I got an email from the mayor that he talked to the forestry dept and the tree will come down on 11-9-10. I hope I have lit the fire under the right butt this time. I did put the letter in the terms that these branches coming down are big enough to cripple or even kill someone walking down the sidewalk and the tree is so rotten that it could easily fall over and there is no direction that it can go where it will not land on either a house or a main power line. I just hope it is a hortheast wind that takes it down cuz I really need a new roof. In pic 4 you can just see the split that is running up the tree, that split is on the side straight away from my house and is currently about 2 inches wide, more than a foot deep and about 10 feet long.
