From: <portersquare@googlegroups.com> on behalf of "Anita D. McClellan" <adm@anitamcclellan.com> Date: Monday, April 8, 2019 at 7:12 PM To: CPSParents listserv <cpsparents@yahoogroups.com>, <VassalLane@yahoogroups.com>, gp21 list serv <gp21@yahoogroups.com>, PSNA LIST <portersquare@googlegroups.com> Subject: [Porter square] City of Cambridge calls out to residents who want trees planted (paid by city on city property) All, The city is making up a list of locations to plant trees, so now is the time for you to make your request(s) to restore the city’s vanishing canopy. Use the city’s Commonwealth Connect app [link below] to place and track your tree-planting request(s). Download Cambridge’s "issue reporting app" at: https://www.cambridgema.gov/Services/commonwealthconnect Then enter your request on-line. This is the best way as your request will be tracked. Commonwealth Connect is your direct connection for commonly requested City services. By using Commonwealth Connect, your request is automatically assigned to the responsible department, and you are given a tracking number and contact information in order to be able to follow up on your request if needed.                 Reporting an issue or making a quality-of-city-life request takes only a minute and helps make our city a better place to live, work and visit! If you submit a request that hasn't been resolved within several days or where there has been no response to you about what to expect, please call 617-349-9188 and a staff member will look up your request and connect with City staff to get an update for you. If the city’s and private property owners’ (Harvard, MA DCR, MBTA, hello?) relentless felling of healthy, mature trees is news to you, read Oct. 2018 news piece https://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/news/20181010/report-shows-alarming-18-per...                 Google “Harvard Divinity School red oak” to read about the awesome, breathtaking 100+-year-old tree recently felled to make room for a new cafeteria https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/12/14/debate-swirls-over-fate-oak-tre...                 If you’re still interested in more city trees, shady Cambridge streets, green space, get in touch with green activist Charles Teague by emailing ChangeCambridge@gmail.com. Teague, clerk of Association of Cambridge Neighborhoods/ACN, a citywide citizens’ nonprofit launched in 1994, is a North Cambridge resident who caught W.R. Grace cutting down a tree in the public Linear Park, with result that the company had to fund 3 replacement trees. Alewife's Linear Park is a beautiful paved mile-long trail on an abandoned railroad right-of-way constructed over the tunnel connecting the Davis Square MBTA Red Line Station in Somerville to Alewife Station in North Cambridge. In addition to providing passive and active recreational and leisure space, Linear Park provides pedestrian and bicycle pathways to the subway stations and to the business districts at Davis Square and Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. Teague also doubled the number of replacement Linear Park trees as part of the Dick’s Auto Body redevelopment permitting process and had the Cambridge Lumber redevelopment redesign its Linear Park boundary.                 To learn more about ACN and green activism in Cambridge, read this: http://www.cambridgeday.com/2018/12/29/news-or-views-newsletter-on-loss-of-t...                 And don’t forget to put in your request for tree planted around the city! Neighborhoods with well-shaded streets can be up to 6–10° F cooler than neighborhoods without street trees, reducing the heat-island effect and energy demand. (U.S. Forest Service Center for Urban Forest Research) Shaded parking lots keep automobiles cooler, reducing emissions from fuel tanks and engines, and help reduce the heat-island effect. (U.S. Forest Service) Anita D. McClellan Begin forwarded message: From: Charles Teague <charles.d.teague@gmail.com> Subject: [trees] Re: Tree planting info Date: April 8, 2019 at 11:36:44 AM EDT To: Cambridge Trees LIST <cambridge-trees-core@googlegroups.com> Hi folks, I got the email below asking about requesting a tree planting. The city is making up it's list of locations now so it's the time to ask. Download the "issue reporting app" at: https://www.cambridgema.gov/Services/commonwealthconnect Then enter your request on-line. This is the best way as your request will be tracked. I have heard many, many stories over many, many meetings where people report trying (unsuccessfully) to get a tree planted for many years. -- Charlie Forwarded email follows: Charles, Since the city will pay for tree planting, can someone call and request a tree planting for a friend's sidewalk or does the request have to come from the owner of the sidewalk area directly where the tree is being planted? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambridge Trees CORE" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cambridge-trees-core+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cambridge-trees-core@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cambridge-trees-core/CAN%3DHs0rJwBXm%3DvM%.... 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