Implementation of Fircrest master development plan takes down trees along 15th NE
Sunday, July 13, 2025
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| Clearcutting along 15th NE on Fircrest property Photo by Seattle Poppy |
Fircrest School Master Development projects are underway, including improvements to roads inside the complex.
Required frontage improvements along 15th NE made it necessary to remove a number of mature evergreens. They will be replaced 1:1 by new trees.
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| Existing lanes inside Fircrest will be improved Photo by Seattle Poppy |
Roads inside the property will also be improved. The immediate project includes construction of a new, 120-bed skilled nursing facility, which was authorized by the Washington State Legislature.
The facility would be overseen by DDA and provide critical services for residents at the Residential Habilitation Center.
A notice was placed on every tree before it was cut. The names listed are project managers for Kiewit Corporation.
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These ones appeared to have been aggressively pruned to keep them out of the power lines. I'm sure the replacements will be more thoughtfully positioned. I hope they pick evergreens!
We drive by this every day. Those notices might have been printed out on June 23rd, but they weren’t attached until right before the trees were felled.
I'll never get to see the new trees be anything other than saplings.
"Required frontage improvements along 15th NE made it necessary to remove a number of mature evergreens"... required by who? Another case of cutting down trees (in this case, according to the permit, 175 trees) in order to have a road with relatively little traffic? I wonder what the rationale was, and why our city can't fine- tune "development" to accommodate these mature trees, especially as our climate is changing towards heat and drought. It simply is as short-sighted as building in a known flood plain. Public Works claims they carefully evaluate each tree condemned to destruction, but that's getting very hard to believe.
Yes. The notices were on the trees only after the cutting had started, not at all in June.
has anybody looked at any legal action for not posting notices in appriority time before cutting?
Happy developers = worsened neighborhoods
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