The City of Pensacola typically punishes trimming heritage oak trees with fines of $100 per inch cut.
However, the city says it has no record of exactly how many inches were cut, so it's unclear how much money the company could have to pay.
Executive Landscaping spoke with WEAR News on Tuesday, saying disc golfers had asked them to trim the tree because they have a goal beneath it.
The company also says the city never told them it was a heritage tree -- and they had no idea it was protected.
However, the city says regardless of what kind of tree is being dealt with, any and all major chops need their approval.
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Love that their defense is basically "we didn't know" like that ever gets anyone out of trouble
Worse than that… “the disc golfers told us to do it”
It works for government officials, why can it work for everyone else.
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No political bias in this report. Just an understatement of contractor liability because the reporter does not understand tree law.
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Neighbors taking pics on the street
This is a city contractor cutting a tree on city property, Since when do government contractors take direction from park visitors rather than the government's contract manager for the contract? Had the government official told them to cut the tree, they would probably be off the hook.
Fines apply to someone cutting a tree on their own property without a permit. When a government contractor negligently destroys government property without authorization, the contractor is liable for the value of the damage they caused, in addition to any fines.
They massacred those oak trees. Don't these supposed arborists from(Executive Landscaping- ha ha) understand that some trees with beautiful draping foliage are best left alone because they look great as is? You give an idiot with a chainsaw and this is what happens. That's like giving a paint brush to a child and letting them paint over a Rembrandt painting to touch it up a bit.
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Today I learned if golf is too hard you can make the hole easier to get to.