Developer Agrees To Save Huge Water Oak
This agreement to preserve a tree during renovations could be a model replicated in many other projects!
By Charlie Clark in the Falls Church News-Press, “A towering, multi-branched water oak tree in the Williamsburg neighborhood has been saved from the chainsaw.
As recommended by the Arlington Tree Action Group, realtor Liz Kirby this month inked an unusual sales contract with a builder planning to expand the brick rambler at 5920 N. 35th St. An addendum specifies that any new construction will be done in consultation with a certified Virginia arborist. “He appreciates trees, knowing that greenery is good for us all,” she told me.
That’s important news during our times of highly visible climate change.”