Tree lovers win: Plan to be revisited

August 6, 2007 at 9:57p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN — North Side residents Mary June, 66, and Jean Engle, 59, attended a public meeting tonight with one mission in mind: to defend the trees on West Federal Street.

June helped plant flower beds along the trees’ trunks as a member of the downtown beautification group Cityscape.

Engle is part of a local organization that encourages tree-planting.

So, when the pair heard the city was planning to remove the street’s tree-lined medians to make way for additional parking, they wanted their voices to be heard.

And they weren’t the only ones.

Residents, business people and community leaders packed council chambers, issuing near unanimous criticism of the city’s plan.

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