Topics at the December 11 Fulton Hill Civic Association meeting at the NRC included Neighborhood Watch, emergency preparedness training, discouraging the sale of single-serving alcoholic beverages, the campaign for an elementary school in Fulton, and a report on loss of many trees in the city due to short-sighted tree management practices by the Department of Public Utilities.

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Leading with a quote by Fulton artist Paul DiPasquale, today’s RTD has a look at the city’s “complaint-driven tree-maintenance policy [which] threatens the urban forest“. City crews are cutting down 1,500 to 2,000 trees a year (often in response to neighbor complaints), while planting only 300 new trees.