Daniel Billey
If you drove by the front of the residence on 36th Ave SW you probably weren’t able to see the downhill carnage. Drive uphill on Admiral and just before the flashing “this is your speed” sign look up that slope or better yet just pull over for a safer look.
Followed city codes and rules for 4 decades as a landscape designer/contractor and that work on the ECA slope is absolutely illegal. Also there is no approved “topping for view” rule, period.
Further up the hill at the actual pull out for the city view, the decisions ahead and likely heavy pruning to open that sacred view again will really open the door for more of the view pruning. They’ve let all the downslope native growth just do it’s thing for many years and the view is pretty much nonexistent in the growing seasons. Will be interesting for sure…