Request to cut down healthy trees met with ‘ho, ho, no!’

YOUNGSTOWN — A city request to cut down two healthy silver maple trees in order to get a better look at the downtown Christmas tree was met with a “ho, ho, no!” by the Design Review Committee.

Not trying to be a Grinch, Dave Kosec, a DRC member, said today: “It’s one month a year so why don’t you put the Christmas tree somewhere else. I don’t like where the Christmas tree sits now. There are other places downtown where it can go.”

The committee unanimously voted Tuesday to deny the city’s request to cut down the trees.

Angelo Pignatelli, also a committee member, said it’s not worth taking down two healthy trees to have a Christmas tree up for a month when it could be placed somewhere else downtown.

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