Austin Barron’s letter (11/9/2023) provides one excellent reason for voting NO on Valley’s Edge. Chico will lose approximately 1500 trees to the development, the majority, slow-growth oak trees. He mentions a proposed “Tree Preservation Program” and plans to replant, all hopeful “speculation” but no guarantees. What he fails most to see is the bigger picture […]
Valley’s Edge is (not) cutting down all the oak trees? No. Listen, I understand the panic that locals feel when a developer is building near oak trees. I remember when I was young, a developer in Chico once cut roughly 100 oak trees without city permission. However, if you have had the chance to read […]