A few months ago, I wrote about Stuart Allen, a West Marlborough resident who was upset that the township wouldn't let him cut down trees on his property at Route 926 and Big Spring Road.
After he complained, the township engineer decided that he was actually within his rights to cut down the trees he wanted to, as long as he didn't exceed 20% of the trees measuring more than five inches in diameter on his entire property. He also agreed to plant some replacement trees.
As soon as he was issued a permit, Mr. Allen went ahead with gusto. I drove by the other day and the front yard of his property is now practically bare (in fact, township planning commission chairman Josh Taylor described it as resembling "clear-cutting"). There was a big stack of good-sized tree trunks by the driveway.
Mrs. Allen will certainly have enough sun for the garden she said she wanted.
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