Yeah. I posted a little while ago about trying to get my town to plant more trees because my god there are entire streets that might as well be a desert with how little shade they have. It’s unbearable to walk anywhere if it gets to be anywhere near 80+.

I’m slowly making tiny bits of progress since then, but nothing concrete. I emailed multiple gov reps/officials and got no response. However, my mom just happened to run into the chief of staff or whatever for the town’s supervisor at a concert at a park, who is apparently sympathetic and said we could talk with him sometime. He said they had a tree program and were planting what they thought were trees that wouldn’t disrupt the sidewalks but when that didn’t work out they just gave up.

I’m gonna try emailing him with some more info on options to avoid root damage and see if this can get anywhere.