Tree City USA?

There are rumors that KCP&L and the City are talking about taking out all of the beautiful trees along Main Street and replanting with smaller species such as crab apple trees. I suspect that KCP&L has no particular love for our trees and would just as soon have nothing but naked overhead lines. Hey folks, we want and need these mature trees to help sequester the carbon dioxide spewed out by the coal-fired power plants, to provide much needed shade, to offer homes for songbirds and to soothe us with their beauty.

Some have suggested that if KCP&L presses the issue that the City will simply cave and allow our trees to be cut down. Now, it is one thing to remove dead or diseased trees and to replace them with the same species, but to remove healthy trees and replace them with smaller species is not what we, as Parkvillians, will want. Perhaps KCP&L should put their lines underground.

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==JFK==