The other option is to simply cut them down, get shamed in the local paper media, and pay $3k in greenbacks per tree, apparently. Doubtful most homeowners have 15 trees they can remove...much less 150. In a place like the Emerald City, chopping down trees makes you socially untouchable...better hope you retire after this contract, Marty!
This is one of many reasons why I skiddadled out of Greenwood and moved to the beautiful hamlet of Shoreline. That, and I couldn't handle the umpteenth fancy coffee shop, bar, and "micro-apartment" block popping up raising housing prices to laughable levels.
In Shoreline, everything is legal here. Within a mile of my house, I have casinos, three liquor stores, pot dispensaries, two bikini barista stands, and all the ladies of the evening and recreational psychotropic fun any person could ever ask for!
God Bless Shoreline...or to put it in a more proper Seattle manner...
May The Powers That Be Continue to Bring Good Vibrations to the Earth, Water, Air, and Womenfolk of Shoreline
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