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Hoisington requests trees overhanging streets be trimmed
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HOISINGTON — At its regular meeting on Monday night, the Hoisington City Council discussed ways to encourage citizens with low hanging trees branches over public streets to trim back those trees.Current city code states that trees should not overhang any sidewalk lower than eight feet from the surface, and any street lower than 14 from the street. City Manager Jonathan Mitchell has received numerous complaints about branches obstructing visibility or scraping vehicles. The council will discuss this more at a future meeting.Adams, Brown, Beran and Ball gave an audit report for the city for 2011.