Avondale Estates committee prepares tree ordinance draft
Avondale Estates’ newly formed green space committee is preparing a tree-ordinance draft pertaining to single-family residential homes only. Avondale’s current tree ordinance covers all zoning districts except for residential.
Chair Brad Jones said the committee hopes to finish the draft by late February. It will then present it to city commissioners and City Attorney Bob Wilson for review.
“All five of us [committee members] are landscape architects,” Jones said. “None of us have ever written a tree ordinance, but we all have experience reading and dealing with them. Not [all residents] will be happy, but we hope we’ll have something [appealing to] the average homeowner.”
Jones said the committee also wants to make the city’s three pocket parks “more appealing,” possibly by planting various native plants. The parks, the largest is three acres, date to the city’s 1920s origins, but in the decades since have been surrounded by homes, mostly sealed off and ignored.
