“We felt like we had our own private corner. It was nice,” Tom-Kee told KTW. “The park was there, but not right there. My ignorance was bliss. I knew it was there, but we had our privacy. It’s gone. It’s literally gone.” Tom-Kee pointed to between 30 and 50 stumps that remain and a dozen residences backing onto Centennial Park impacted. Tom-Kee said the city is planning to remove the stumps and replace its chainlink fence a small alleyway also separates the townhouses from the park and townhouses at the edge of the park. Tom-Kee said she asked the city a couple of years ago to clean up the area by removing garbage and cutting back some of the foliage. She did not, however, expect the hedge to be removed entirely. She said the greenery was healthy, with many birds making the hedge home.