Case Date:

4/23/2025

"Tree-Keeper" database reports 56 Ailanthus altissima ("tree of heaven") trees being maintained by the City. Given this is an invasive plant and is known to be the primary food source for Lycorma delicatula (spotted lanternfly), should the City be obliged to remove these trees that are listed on the State list: ("Prohibited Invasive Terrestrial Plants [312 IAC 18-3-25]", https://ag.purdue.edu/department/entm/iisc/invasive-plants.html) ? If HAND is going to proactively threaten residents by "asking" them to remove something that is not on the State list (e.g., bamboo), it seems profoundly hypocritical for them to not address a serious ecological issue that they are helping to advance.

Case Date:

5/7/2013

overgrown yard

Case Date:

5/29/2013

Obstruction of the sidewalk due to vegetation.

Case Date:

7/12/2013

yard overgrown, not mowed in weeks

Case Date:

10/1/2013

signed complaint for excess growth (including poison ivy) growing in front yard and along sidewalk

Case Date:

10/7/2013

Excessive growth out into sidewalk

Case Date:

4/20/2012

overhanging vegetation, not being mowed, falls out into sidewalk area on Cottage Grove side of building

Case Date:

8/7/2012

overgrown vegatation

Case Date:

6/12/2017

Testing again

Case Date:

5/17/2018