"More than a dozen large trees of more than 20 years in the community have all been cut down, bare, this is called pruning?" A resident of Chengdu reflected. Originally, located in the old community of No. 184 Jiaoda Road, Jinniu District, Chengdu, the trees in the courtyard were too tall and dense to cause the branches to tilt and there were safety hazards, and the community committee recently carried out pruning after obtaining the consent of the owner and publicizing it. Unexpectedly, after pruning, some residents were dissatisfied, questioning the committee for violently cutting down trees without permission. On June 17, Red Star News reporters learned from the Greening Management Section of the Park City Construction and Urban Renewal Bureau in Jinniu District, Chengdu that the staff had gone to the scene to investigate. The pruning procedures in the community are compliant, but they have over-pruned and illegal logging in the process of pruning, and have now been further investigated and handled by the law enforcement squadron of the territorial street office.
↑ Pruning of community trees is "beheaded"
Residents: Tree pruning is approved, but "cutting" is excessive
On June 17, Red Star News reporters came to the courtyard of No. 184 Jiaotong University Road. As soon as you enter the gate, the trees on both sides of the main road are only the trunk, bare and very eye-catching.
Along the main road to the end of the yard, more than a dozen large trees on the side of the road are almost all trimmed into "light poles" about 6 meters high, and there are several tree stumps that only have a few tens of centimeters left. However, the reporter noticed that the trunks of these trees are inclined to the middle of the road.
When the reporter visited, he found that for pruning, most residents in the community agreed, "These trees grow too tall, the branches are dense, and there are hidden dangers in thunderstorms." One resident said that the trees were dense and blocked out the light, and everyone wanted to prune it, and they also made many comments.
↑ Some of the trees in the community are "cut down" into stumps
However, regarding tree pruning, the residents of the community are approved, but the "beheading" is somewhat unexpected. Some residents believe that the "cutting" is a bit excessive, and the large trees of more than twenty years have been directly cut like a stake, which is too simple and rough to talk about pruning. There were even large trees that had cut down only a few tens of centimeters of stump, and they questioned the committee for violently cutting down trees without permission.
Committee: The tree was smashed into the car, solicited opinions and publicized and pruned
For the matter of pruning in the community, the director of the community residents' autonomous management committee had a bitter word to Ben Ju. In her words, it's "good intentions do bad things." The courtyard of No. 184 Jiaoda Road is an old community, and the small saplings that used to be small have long grown into towering trees. With the continuous growth of trees, problems have continued, and even affected the safety of residents in the community.
Some of the tallest trees have grown to 6 stories high, because the trees are too dense and tall, the trunk begins to tilt, some branches are hooked with cables, some branches are bent badly, you can reach out, and these trees are very easy to be blown down when it is windy and rainy in the summer.
"Last year, a tree smashed the car, causing economic losses to the owner, and if it hits someone, it will be serious." The neighborhood janitor said,
In addition to safety issues, issues such as lighting, hygiene, and mosquito prevention are also under consideration. In the summer, there are many insects and eggs under the tree, and the small fruits on the tree fall all over the ground, affecting hygiene. Therefore, the residents of the community have repeatedly reported that they hope to prune the branches of the big tree.
↑ The trees grow to six stories high before the pruning of the community
After soliciting the opinions of residents to agree to the pruning, but due to the delay in resolving the pruning costs, the previously managed property was not successfully pruned. Until May this year, Xiang Benju and others formed an autonomous management committee for community residents to carry out autonomous management. In order to solve this problem for everyone, these seventy- and eighty-year-old people in the hospital committee have traveled from place to place and have finally been implemented.
According to the procedure, on June 8, the hospital committee announced the pruning plan before pruning, indicating that it would retain the roots to about 6 meters in the canopy, and all pruning above 6 meters, if there are different opinions, please reflect them in time. No comments were received during the publicity period, and on June 11, the community officially pruned, "Now that the repairs have been completed, only residents have raised their opinions." ”
↑ Community pruning scheme publicity
For the residents' doubts, Xiang Benju said that the pruning procedures were completed, soliciting opinions, community application for filing, plan publicity, etc., and pruning was also completed by a professional greening team. As for the trees that were cut down, Xiang Benju said that this was already a serious pest infestation, and some of the trees that had been dumped were cut down in order to eliminate safety hazards, but at that time, they did not know that the procedures were not compliant.
Relevant departments: the procedures are compliant, but involve excessive pruning, etc
Subsequently, the Red Star News reporter contacted the Greening Management Section of the Park Urban Construction and Urban Renewal Bureau in Jinniu District, Chengdu.
"After receiving feedback from the masses, we went to the scene to investigate this matter. The normal pruning procedures of the community are compliant, but they have over-pruning and illegal felling of trees in the process of pruning. The staff said that according to the "Chengdu Residential Community Landscaping Management Regulations", the greening of residential communities should ensure building safety, adhere to the principle of unified coordination of landscape, ecology and safety, and comprehensively consider factors such as sunshine, lighting, ventilation, and traffic, and can be pruned and not transplanted; those that can be transplanted are not cut down. No unit or individual may transplant or cut down trees in the green space of the residential community without authorization, must not occupy the green space in the residential community without authorization, and must not destroy the topography, landform, water bodies and vegetation of the green space of the residential community.
In terms of tree pruning, if it is really necessary to prune in accordance with the relevant technical regulations to eliminate the impact due to the impact of tree growth affecting the lighting, ventilation and living safety of residents, the property service agency shall obtain the consent of the owners' committee and announce the pruning plan at the pruning site and accept the supervision of the owners. The transplantation and felling of trees in residential areas shall be organized by the owners' committee to convene a general meeting of the owners, with the consent of the owners whose exclusive part accounts for more than half of the total area of the building and the owners who account for more than half of the total number of people. Where it is necessary to cut down trees due to the death of trees, endangering public safety, occurrence of quarantine diseases and insect pests or other serious pests and diseases, they shall be reported to the competent department of landscaping for approval in accordance with the provisions of the "Chengdu Municipal Landscaping Regulations" before they can be cut down.
↑There are irregularities such as excessive logging in the pruning of the community
"Cutting down trees requires a certificate, and you need one." The staff said that according to the on-site investigation, the pruning of the community collected the opinions of residents and publicized the pruning plan, which was compliant, but the trees were cut down during the pruning process, and the felling was definitely illegal to the competent authorities for approval. At present, the law enforcement squadron of the subordinate sub-district office has intervened, and the specific results of the treatment need to be further investigated.
For how to identify whether it is excessive pruning, the staff explained that at present, Chengdu does not have a specific standard, different varieties of trees, different seasons are different, there is no fixed requirements, and each district and county is measured by reference according to the specific situation. "But there is indeed over-pruning in the community."
Red Star News reporter Zhang Zhaoting photo report
Edited by Yu Manga
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