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SOUTH BEND & SAINT JOSEPH COUNTY <br />HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION <br />235-9798 <br />MEMORANDUM <br />Thursday, June 10, 2004 <br />TO: Brent Thompson, City Forester <br />FROM: Karen R. Hammond -Nash <br />RE: Leeper park Tree Trimming Application <br />Today, June 10, I received your Application for limbing-up the trees in Leeper Park 6", for <br />the Leeper Park Art Fair June 26 and 27. <br />The next meting of the Historic Preservation Commission is Monday, June 21, at 7:30 <br />p.m., on the 7th floor of the County -City Building. Technically, the deadline for submitting <br />Applications is the first Monday of the month, which was June 2, but I begged permission to <br />include you on this month's agenda anyhow, since a hearing next month would do you no good at <br />all. <br />If I recall correctly, you submitted a similar Application last year, and there wasn't time for <br />it to be heard at a regular meeting, so the Landmark Committee that year directed me to tell you <br />that they would schedule an emergency special meeting if you wished, but that the odds of the <br />application being considered fairly were fairly slim. <br />If a tree branch is diseased or broken, or for some reason needs to be taken off or trimmed <br />FOR THE SAKE OF THE TREE, then you may go ahead and do that as a matter of routine <br />maintenance. However, the HPC, as a matter of policy, discourages making permanent changes to <br />important landscape features such as trees, for the sake of temporary events such as two-day fairs. <br />Hopefully, tents and booth can just be shifted into locations that accommodate the trees, <br />without cutting and reshaping them just for the sake of the event. <br />We hope to mail meeting packets to HPC members Monday, June 14. If there is any <br />additional or specific data you would like them to have, please let us know, or get it to us by then. <br />Please do call me if you have any questions, or if Julie or I can do anything helpful. <br />