Politics & Government
Consultants: Most Monterey Pines in Blair Park Need to Go
Community members also outlined their hopes for the park's future at a Piedmont Park Commission meeting last week.
More than 40 of Blair Park's 51 Monterey pines along Moraga Avenue are in such poor condition that they should be removed, a landscape architect and an arborist told the Piedmont Park Commission last week, according to an article on the Piedmont Civic Association website.
Bob Birkeland of Restoration Design Group (RDG), the firm hired by the city to develop a landscaping plan for the park, and arborist Jim Clarke, who is working with RDG on the plan, said that other trees — native coast live oaks and California bay laurels — need pruning and the removal of invasive ivy to flourish.
The commission also heard from several members of the public who described their hopes for the park's future, the article reported.
The landscaping plan is being developed as part of a settlement between the City of Piedmont and Friends of Moraga Canyon, a non-profit group that mounted a legal challenge to the city's environmental impact report on a now-defunct proposal to build soccer fields in the park.
You may read the complete article on the Piedmont Civic Association website here.
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