Project Update - August 29, 2021
Progress Toward Replanting Minnehaha The Replant Minnehaha Trees project continues with leaps and bounds toward replanting this fall. Following a fundraising event on August 12, the project has reached its $16,000 funding goal! This means that the project could afford to cover stump-grinding for all of the trees that were removed along and near Minnehaha this year, paving the way for replanting to take place as soon as this fall. Stump-grinding has begun for the blocks where all of the homeowners have signed replanting permit applications. The main challenge for the project at this point is to collect permit applications from more property owners on blocks where only some of the owners have submitted their permits so far. The city is requiring permit applications from an entire block before stump grinding and replanting can proceed for that block. Homeowners who lost trees are encouraged to submit their permit application ASAP! The pr...