Swapping trees for asphalt cause of heat
Regarding "City's leafy moniker is in jeopardy" (Mailbag, July 27). As a decades-long, deep-rooted Glendale denizen, I remember when Fremont Park was raided by the city for some of its signature palm trees — purportedly at the behest of a hotel-owner/landscaper (read: campaign contributions) somewhere in Glendale. Note the swath of dirt where the spike-gouged grass and those removed trees used to be next time you're there.
Now by an unpleasantly amazing coincidence, a "newcomer" neighbor/owner recently cut down three trees on his duplex property very close by to where I rent. It's sad. There's that much less oxygen being produced, the trees added at least a modicum of beauty to the street (being former frontyard assets).
