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Friday, August 8, 2008

Mayor’s Office Weighs In On Treegate

posted by on August 8 at 13:07 PM

Mayor Greg Nickels’ Office is getting in on the fight between North Seattle residents and the Seattle School District over the district’s plan to remove nearly 100 trees from Ingraham High School’s campus.

The dispute has been tied up for months while the district waited for permits but yesterday, residents near Ingraham received letters from the school district, informing them that the district had pulled its permit applications, and would be moving ahead with the tree removal sometime next week.

“The city is not happy with the school district,” says Mayor Nickels’ spokesman Alex Fryer.”To submit an application and withdraw it…is just not the way anyone should do business. It certainly looks like an act of bad faith.”

Fryer says the city plans to “apply some political and moral pressure” on the district and look at whether the city has any legal authority in the matter.

School District spokeswoman Patty Spencer was not available for comment.

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Pissed off tree lovers in North Seattle


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1

God, you have to love our nimble mayor and the way he moves from one critical city issue to the next:

Bonfires at Golden Gardens;
Guns in public parks;
Ugly townhouses;
Plastic shopping bags;
And now, trees that are in the way of expanding a school.

I truly hope he solves this one at light-speed -- most likely through new taxes -- so he can move on regulating the pedicab "industry."

Is it any wonder that the mayor doesn't have time to address street crime, unaffordable housing and our traffic problems?

Posted by Man in the Street | August 8, 2008 1:28 PM
2

Nothing against tree lovers, but they look stoned and probably smell like Patchouli.

Posted by CommonKnowledge | August 8, 2008 1:34 PM
3

does anyone know where the guy in the middle is right now? I would like to punch him in the mouth.

Posted by menelaus22 | August 8, 2008 1:49 PM
4

Political and moral pressure? From the Mayor's Office? They're doing fuck-all, in other words.

Posted by Fnarf | August 8, 2008 1:50 PM
5

Look at me, I'm a lumber jack cutting down your trees for wood pulp!!!11!!

Posted by "Logging" | August 8, 2008 2:09 PM
6

La La La!

Hey, what's Screwy Squirrel doing with that chainsaw?

Nothing, he's just working for the School Board.

But, didn't he fail the WASL?

Nah, just the math part.

Posted by Happy Tree Friends | August 8, 2008 2:28 PM
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NIMBYs. They should let the school get on to educating kids instead of spending money on legal fees because they want to keep things status quo to benefit themselves.

Posted by Lumberjack | August 8, 2008 8:26 PM
8

Too bad about the picture... I'd rather have seen the trees in question. (I guess it should be a comfort that the lumbroids remain a cultural constant...) ^..^

Posted by herbert browne | August 9, 2008 10:35 PM
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The Seattle School District is too preoccupied with fortifying its autocracy and with operating in the manipulative manner characteristic of school district administrators across this state. Manipulation is the name of the game administrators play to get what they want whether it's beneficial to the public or to the planet. Preoccupation with destruction has prevented them from learning about climate change and the role of trees in mitigating that change. Or maybe they don't care about preserving the planet. Trees are naturally occurring carbon filters which can convert some of that fossil fuel carbon to much needed oxygen. Therefore, the scientific reason for preservation of trees has little to do with aesthetics or tree hugging. But we lemmings who are marching into the sea of global warming, led by the idiotic school administrators, eschew the voice of reason, allowing the Machiavellian principles guiding school administrators to prevail.

Posted by Planet Earth | August 10, 2008 1:47 AM

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