Fake trees? Let’s put the money in our streets

Published 10:00 am Friday, April 24, 2015

I also live in Lakeland Hills for over a decade now. And I want to say that I totally agree with the letter, “Fake Trees for real ones?” of David Alexander (Auburn Reporter, April 17).

As he said, “Why not just leave the real trees, if the point is to give homeowners something nice to look at?” As he also said, those homeowners knew there was a water tank there when they bought their houses. They chose to live there.

And really, would painted trees on the water tank instead of real trees around it improve the scenario in that area of Lakeland Hills?

To spend $18,000 on an unnecessary and ridiculous idea of a City Council project such as this is a waste of taxpayers’ money. Instead of painting fake trees on a water tank, what the members of the Auburn City Council need to be looking at should be the holes and cracks in the streets of our city. There are plenty of them.

Here at Lakeland Hills the street at the main entrance from A street is gutted and full of holes. I have to do zigzag maneuvers when driving up the hill.

Instead of painting fake trees, may I ask the City Council then to perhaps divert its necessary attention to filling up street holes?

Thank you.

– Jesse Jose