Funny how you can spend hours and hours trying to get the city to do something, and never get anywhere. Or, someone somewhere can ask the city to something one time, and have no juristiction it happening and it can just happen, as easy as that. The Times Dispatch reports:

Richmond planted a maple tree in front of Kate Bishop-Pevsner’s home the same week she moved into the house in the city’s Near West End in 1975.

The little tree was spindly, so Bishop-Pevsner and her daughters propped it with broomsticks and nourished it to health. “That is part of the history of my family with that tree,” she said.

So Bishop-Pevsner was devastated when she came home from work in early September to find the tree in pieces in the street, King Crest Parkway. The city had removed the tree at a neighbor’s request, but she and other neighbors weren’t consulted.

The tree was healthy, she said. It wasn’t near a power line.

“We’re supposed to be greening Richmond,” Bishop-Pevsner said, “not taking perfectly healthy trees out.”

The tree has not been replaced.