Decatur’s first ever full-time arborist (officially Landscape Infrastructure Coordinator), India Woodson, has resigned with the city already searching for a replacement.
Woodson remains on the job until Friday. She is leaving to take a similar position in Columbia, SC.
She’s been in Decatur since August 2014, accepting the position one month after the city’s new tree ordinance took effect. Before that she spent 11 years as DeKalb County aborist, after working as parks superintendent in Buford, S.C., where she graduated from the Technical College of the Low Country.
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Passed – Commission approves tree ordinance
Decatur City Commissioners approved a new ordinance that would place additional regulations on tree removal while promoting growth of the city’s canopy.
The vote was unanimous.
City Planning Director Amanda Thompson said the ordinance makes it cheaper for property owners to plant trees than to take them down.
“The city is not obsessed with regulations,” Thompson said.
Under the ordinance, property owners will be able to remove up to three healthy trees within 18 months without penalty. The owners will be required to fill out a free informational permit that will help the city track changes to its canopy. It defines a protected tree as one being 6 inches or greater in diameter at breast height.
In addition the city says, “If (the) protected tree removal is part of a project that requires a land development permit or is the fourth or greater protected tree removal within 18 months, then the owner must document the existing tree canopy cover and maintain the same amount of tree canopy once the project is complete.”
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