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“Zohran and his advisers don’t know history and don’t have the slightest grasp of the numbers,” a former top city housing official told me. (He asked not to be identified because he still works with the city on affordable-housing projects.) Mamdani himself has proposed to triple the amount of money spent on housing in the city’s capital plan, pushing overall costs toward $100 billion over 10 years, which overshadows the estimated cost of his rivals’ plans. And he proposes to accomplish this with union labor, which the city’s Independent Budget Office found would add 23 percent to overall costs.

Meanwhile, Mamdani’s proposal to freeze rent in rent-stabilized units ignores fundamental problems: Landlords of much of the city’s rent-stabilized housing stock—including a number of respected nonprofit groups—cannot afford maintenance costs and debt service, the watchdog Citizens Budget Commission wrote recently. Because expenses are growing faster than rents in older buildings, many are “teetering on the edge of a ‘death spiral.’”

I reached out to Mamdani’s campaign for comment on these issues and have not yet heard back. His supporters seem unbothered by the obvious holes in his proposals. His tax increases sound righteous, a socialist holding the wealthy to account. But the state legislature and governor would have to sign off, and that is a very distant possibility.

I needed to pull this section out because, as many of you may know, my job involves dealing with affordable housing and development and whatnot for the city. And Michael Powell (the writer of this Atlantic piece) and the anonymous former housing official are fully correct, and Mamdani is fully wrong.

The city's zoning plan had not received any kind of comprehensive or focused update since the 1960s, and most construction and development (for housing and otherwise) goes through rezoning through either the UDAAP or ULURP process, which involves the city council specifically designating it a certain way to exempt or change the zoning requirements for the property and the project. It's not until Adams and the City of Yes this past year that we had a comprehensive update, and one with a specific detailed housing component.

In the last budget, the city allocated $2.2 billion in capital funding to the city's housing department for funding development of new and existing affordable housing, and that was a remarkably high amount. The state also allocates funding through the state-level housing and development agency (HCR). Additionally, there's a state-established public corporation (HDC) which also provides funding and support for affordable housing development through the issuance of bonds.

With affordable housing, NYC both builds new housing but also "preserves" or rehabs existing affordable housing. The amount of space available to build new housing is limited, the amount of city-owned property is even more so (which would allow for, in theory, quicker building) and there's numerous parties to the deals both internal to the city as well as external, not limited to the developer, banks, lawyers, architects, contractors etc.

Preserving existing affordable housing involves relocating tenants, identify issues ranging from cash flow, maintenance, arrears (rent and utility, both by tenants but also by the property owner) etc. These are some of the most difficult projects to manage, and often involve a lot of financing. These projects also involve more HUD-financing, and so working with HUD is a big part of the work.

All projects involve some kind of community meeting, and often require council member approval (both the council as a whole as well as the specific council members the projects are located in).

Due to climate change, there's resiliency and environmental concerns, particularly with projects that would be located in flood zones (hello to the Rockaways).

Certain projects, if they have federal funds, trigger Davis-Bacon requirements, meaning contractors and subcontractors must be paid at the "prevailing wage", which adds to the costs (and is essentially what using union labor on all projects would do).

There are multiple oversight agencies involved which scrutinize the use of city funds for these projects, from the Comptroller to the Office of Management and Budget, and they all have lengthy review periods and rather stringent oversight and firm jurisdiction, which slows projects and causes problems.

That's not getting into what other parts of the city's housing department do, from dealing with code violations to providing Section 8 vouchers and so forth.

Last week Mayor Ken Sim announced that he plans to stop new supportive housing in Vancouver and dramatically alter the Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan that has preserved low property values and encouraged social housing for the last 10 years.

We write to set the record straight as members of the Order of Canada with years of experience living, working and volunteering in the Downtown Eastside, or DTES.

The DTES Local Area Plan, intended to last for 30 years, was co-developed by the city and a local planning process with representatives from the community’s diverse groups, organizations and businesses. They came up with a plan that moves toward a livable and supportive place for all its middle- and low-income residents, local businesses and services.

The plan is working as intended. One of the eight sub-areas of the DTES, the Oppenheimer District, has rules that keep condos out and require developers of private rental housing to include social housing in 60 per cent of the building.

Research by University of British Columbia assistant professor Kuni Kamizaki shows that 41 social housing buildings have been built or acquired or are in progress in the DTES. [...]

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

December 14, 2025

Heather Cox Richardson

Dec 14, 2025

Last Sunday, on December 7, Mydelle Wright, a well-regarded preservationist, filed a declaration before a court, saying that President Donald J. Trump is trying to get around the law to bulldoze four historic federal buildings. The four are the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, named for the first Black Cabinet member, completed in 1968 and on the National Register of Historic Places as a building worthy of preservation for its historical significance or artistic value; the New Deal–era General Services Administration (GSA) Regional Office Building; the 1919 Liberty Loan Building, which is the last of the World War I era “tempos” erected as the city grew to accommodate a changing government; and the 1940 Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, full of priceless murals that date from its start as the home of the Social Security Board, the precursor to the Social Security Administration.

Now retired, Wright spent 20 years working for the GSA, the agency that oversees federal buildings. She said she had heard and believed that the White House was circumventing the GSA and its legal procedures to solicit bids to recommend the four buildings for demolition. By law, GSA has sole authority over this process; nonetheless, she said, “key GSA personnel have only just learned of the White House’s activities.”

White House lawyers told the court that Wright’s declaration was “impermissible and factually inaccurate.” But the buildings are in styles popular in the twentieth century, ones Trump denigrated in an August executive order when he called for public buildings to be built in a style of classical architecture based on that of ancient Athens and Rome.

Wright’s declaration came as part of a lawsuit launched in November by the DC Preservation League and the law firm Cultural Heritage Partners after Trump told Fox News Channel host Laura Ingraham he was planning to repaint the grey granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building—a National Historic Landmark built in 1888—white. The proposed change had undergone none of the required expert consultation, public input, or consideration of potential damage.

By suing over potential damage to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building before the president could damage it, the plaintiffs seek to prevent the sort of damage Trump inflicted on the White House when he bulldozed the East Wing in October without any of the required reviews, environmental studies, public input, or congressional approval.

In 1949, Congress chartered the nonprofit National Trust for Historic Preservation to “facilitate public participation in the preservation of sites, buildings, and objects of national significance or interest.” On Friday, December 12, the trust sued to stop Trump from building his proposed 90,000-square-foot addition to the White House. It noted that he had torn down the East Wing without securing any of the legal approvals he needed and that the White House greeted public concerns about the demolition by issuing a press release claiming that “‘unhinged leftists and their Fake News allies’ were ‘manufactur[ing] outrage’ and ‘clutching their pearls’ over President Trump’s ‘visionary addition of a grand, privately funded ballroom to the White House.’”

The White House has expressed its opinion that the president does not have to have permits or permission to tear down buildings, only to put them up. But now, without permissions, it appears to have begun construction on the ballroom, despite the fact that the first architect Trump initially picked for the project has stepped aside.

“No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever—not President Trump, not President Joe Biden, and not anyone else,” the lawsuit says. “And no president is legally allowed to construct a ballroom on public property without giving the public the opportunity to weigh in.”

It turns out that Trump arranged for the dirt from the demolition of the East Wing to be dumped on the East Potomac Golf Links, one of three public golf courses in the Washington, D.C., area Trump is hoping to renovate after pushing aside the nonprofit group that holds a 50-year lease to restore and operate the courses and keep them affordable. All three of the courses—East Potomac, Rock Creek Park Golf, and Langston Golf Course—are on the National Register of Historic Places. Trump says if he takes control of them, D.C. residents will pay a lower fee to use them than golfers from outside the area.

In an interview on Friday with Meridith McGraw of the Wall Street Journal about the economy, Trump took repeated calls from friends and allies, including one from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who, McGraw wrote, “joined by speakerphone to discuss the administration’s plans for Washington, D.C. golf courses.”

Today Trump told reporters that chief of the White House Domestic Policy Council, Vince Haley, has “a policy thing that’s going to be unbelievable happening…. We’re building an arc like the Arc de Triumph,” he said, mixing English and French, “and we’re building it by the Arlington Bridge, the Arlington Cemetery, opposite the Lincoln Memorial. You could say, Jefferson, Washington, everything, ‘cause they’re all right there, and it’s something that is so special. It will be like the one in Paris, but to be honest with you, it blows it away, blows it away in every way.”

In The Guardian last week, Judith Levine noted that Trump is erasing the face of a federal government that served the American people, replacing it with his own.

Nowhere is this clearer than in the looming loss of the Cohen building, with its murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and Seymour Fogel. On December 10, Timothy Noah, who has been following this story, posted images of those murals in Backbencher. They were designed to showcase the 1935 Social Security Act that established a federal system of old-age benefits; unemployment insurance; aid to homeless, dependent, and neglected children; funds to promote maternal and child welfare; and public health services. It was a sweeping reworking of the relationship between the government and its citizens, using the power of taxation to pool funds to provide a basic social safety net.

The Shahn murals show the evils of a world of economic insecurity, showing “endless waiting, men standing and waiting, men sitting and waiting, the man and boy going wearily into the long empty perspective of a railroad track.” He showed the “little girl of the mills” and “breaker boys working in a mine. The crippled boy issuing from the mine symbolizes the perils of child labor…a homeless boy is seen sleeping in the street; another child leans from a tenement window.” He showed “the insecurity of dependents—the aged and infirm woman, the helpless mother with her small child.”

Shahn illustrated the alleviation of that insecurity through government action. He showed “the building of homes…[and] tremendous public works, furnishing employment and benefitting all of society…youths of a slum area engaged in healthy sport in handball courts…the Harvest— threshing and fruit-gathering, obvious symbols of security, suggesting also security as it applies to the farm family.”

Now the government is focusing not on protecting everyday Americans, but on protecting those in the “Epstein class.” On Friday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released 89 of the more than 95,000 photos it received from the Epstein estate. Those include images of right-wing Trump media ally Steve Bannon in a relaxed selfie with Epstein, Bannon talking with Epstein across a desk that has a framed photo of what appears to be an unconscious woman, Trump surrounded by young women, and a picture of “Trump condoms,” priced at $4.50. They feature the president’s face as an older man and bear the caption “I’m HUUUUGE!”

These images are not part of the FBI Epstein investigation files, which by law must be released in full no later than December 19. Yesterday, Aaron Blake of CNN reported on a Reuters-Ipsos poll which found that only 18% of Americans think it’s “somewhat” or “very” likely that Trump didn’t know about Epstein’s behavior with children. Thirty-nine percent of Republicans say they think he knew, compared to 34% who think he didn’t.

Yesterday, Meryl Kornfield, Hannah Natanson, and Lisa Rein of the Washington Post reported that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is cutting up to 35,000 healthcare positions by the end of the year. Most of those positions are currently unfilled and include doctors, nurses, and support staff. Already this year, the VA has lost almost 30,000 employees from buyout offers and attrition. The reporters say the cuts will reduce the number of VA healthcare employees to about 372,000, down 10% from last year. The administration is trying to steer veterans to the private healthcare system.

On Thursday the House passed a measure to overturn Trump’s elimination of union rights at federal agencies. A bipartisan group of members forced the vote past House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) with a discharge petition, but it is unlikely to pass the Senate, where Republicans oppose it. Trump said ending union rights was necessary to protect national security.

Last week, Sharon Lerner of ProPublica reported that the Environmental Protection Agency announced it is nearly doubling the amount of formaldehyde it considers safe to breathe. Formaldehyde is used in products from building materials and leather goods to craft supplies. It causes cancer, miscarriage, asthma, and other health issues by altering DNA. Lobbyists for the chemical industry have been working to water down government regulation of it for years. The method of assessment behind the proposed new rule for formaldehyde could change government regulation of other carcinogens, as well.

While the government under Trump and MAGA Republicans is backing away from measures that benefit everyday Americans, it is finding the energy to chase Maryland man Kilmar Ábrego Garcia. Ábrego Garcia is from El Salvador, a country he fled in 2011 at age 16 after the Barrio 18 gang threatened his life. In 2019, a judge denied him asylum but granted him protection from removal out of concern for his safety, allowing him to live and work in the U.S. In March, despite the protection from removal, the administration arrested Ábrego Garcia and sent him to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT terrorist prison, where he was beaten and tortured.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the government to bring him back to the U.S. It appealed; the Supreme Court unanimously ordered it to “facilitate” Ábrego Garcia’s return. The administration claimed that “facilitate” only required it to let him into the country if he arrived; it did not require the government to seek his release.

It brought him back in June, after Tennessee indicted him for transporting immigrants, landing him in prison in that state. While he was in prison, the government tried to remove Ábrego Garcia to several other countries but claimed falsely that Costa Rica, where he asked to go and which had offered to receive him, refused to take him. Instead of sending him to Costa Rica, they continued to imprison him while proposing to send him to Uganda, Eswatini, Ghana, and Liberia, countries where he faced harm or the threat of removal to El Salvador and which didn’t want to take him.

In August, Ábrego Garcia was released on bail and went back to Maryland, where officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested him when he checked in with them. In October, U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw found there was a “realistic likelihood” that the Department of Justice had sought immigrant-trafficking charges against Ábrego Garcia as punishment for challenging his removal to El Salvador.

On Thursday, Judge Xinis said ICE could not hold Ábrego Garcia because there was no final deportation order for him, noting that the judge had not ordered one in 2019. Ábrego Garcia was released at the end of the day, but the administration ordered him to report to ICE’s Baltimore field office at 8:00 the next morning. The Department of Justice had gone to an immigration judge—immigration judges work for the Department of Justice; they are not independent—who issued an order to correct a “scrivener’s error” in the original 2019 order protecting Ábrego Garcia from deportation to say there was a deportation order all along. This appeared to be a precursor to arresting him again.

On Friday, Judge Xinis granted the request of Ábrego Garcia’s lawyers to bar the government from arresting him again until she hears from both parties.

On Friday, Ábrego Garcia checked in at the ICE field office in Baltimore, where he told supporters: “Regardless of this administration, I believe this is a country of laws, and I believe that this injustice will come to its end. Keep fighting. Do not give up. I wish all of you love and justice. Keep going.”

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much to consider.

on the motives and origins of some forms of imperial "environmentalism".

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Since the material resources of colonies were vital to the metropolitan centers of empire, some of the earliest conservation practices were established outside of Europe [but established for the purpose of protecting the natural resources desired by metropolitan Europe]. [...] [T]ropical island colonies were crucial laboratories of empire, as garden incubators for the transplantation of peoples [slaves, laborers] and plants [cash crops] and for generating the European revival of Edenic discourse. Eighteenth-century environmentalism derived from colonial island contexts in which limited space and an ideological model of utopia contributed to new models of conservation [...]. [T]ropical island colonies were at the vanguard of establishing forest reserves and environmental legislation [...]. These forest reserves, like those established in New England and South Africa, did not necessarily represent "an atavistic interest in preserving the 'natural' [...]" but rather a "more manipulative and power-conscious interest in constructing a new landscape by planting trees [in monoculture or otherwise modified plantations] [...]."

Text by: Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley. "Introduction: Toward an Aesthetics of the Earth". Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment, edited by DeLoughrey and Handley. 2011. [Text within brackets added by me for clarity and context.]

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British colonial forestry was arguably one of the most extensive imperial frameworks of scientific natural resource management anywhere [...]. [T]he roots of conservation [...] lay in the role played by scientific communities in the colonial periphery [...]. In India, [...] in 1805 [...] the court of directors of the East India Company sent a dispatch enquiring [...] [about] the Royal Navy [and its potential use of wood from Malabar's forests] [...]. This enquiry led to the appointment of a forest committee which reported that extensive deforestation had taken place and recommended the protection of the Malabar forests on grounds that they were valuable property. [...] [T]o step up the extraction of teak to augment the strength of the Royal Navy [...] [b]etween 1806 and 1823, the forests of Malabar were protected by means of this monopoly [...]. The history of British colonial forestry, however, took a decisive turn in the post-1860 period [...]. Following the revolt of 1857, the government of India sought to pursue active interventionist policies [...]. Experts were deployed as 'scientific soldiers' and new agencies established. [...] The paradigm [...] was articulated explicitly in the first conference [Empire Forestry Conference] by R.S. Troup, a former Indian forest service officer and then the professor of forestry at Oxford. Troup began by sketching a linear model of the development of human relationship with forests, arguing that the human-forest interaction in civilized societies usually went through three distinct phases - destruction, conservation, and economic management. Conservation was a ‘wise and necessary measure’ but it was ‘only a stage towards the problem of how best to utilise the forest resources of the empire’. The ultimate ideal was economic management, [...] to exploit 'to the full [...]' and provide regular supplies [...] to industry.

Text by: Ravi Rajan. "Modernizing Nature: Tropical Forestry and the Contested Legacy of British Colonial Eco-Development, 1800-2000". Oxford Historical Monographs series, Oxford University Press. January 2006.

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It is no accident that the earliest writers to comment specifically on rapid environmental change in the context of empires were scientists who were themselves often actors in the process of colonially stimulated environmental change. [...] [N]atural philosophers [...] in Bermuda, [...] in Barbados and [...] on St Helena [all British colonies] were all already well aware of characteristically high rates of soil erosion and deforestation in the colonial tropics [...]. On St Helena and Bermuda this early conservationism led, by 1715, to the gazetting of the first colonial forest reserves and forest protection laws. On French colonial Mauritius [...], Poivre and Philibert Commerson framed pioneering forest conservation [...] in the 1760s. In India William Roxburgh [and] Edward Balfour [...] ([...] Scottish medical scientists) wrote alarmist narratives relating [to] deforestation [...]. East India Company scientists [...] [including] Roxburgh [...] went on to further observe the incidence of global drought events [...]. The writings of Edward Balfour and Hugh Cleghorn in the late 1840s in particular illustrate the extent of the permeation of a global environmental consciousness [...]. [T]he 1860s [were] a period [...] which embodies a convergence of thinking about ecological change on a world scale [...]. It was in the particular circumstances of environmental change at the colonial periphery that what we would now term "environmentalism" first made itself felt [...]. Victorian texts such as [...] Ribbentrop's Forestry in the British Empire, Brown's Hydrology of South Africa, Cleghorn's Forests and Gardens of South India [...] were [...] vital to the onset of environmentalism [...]. This fear grew steadily in the wake of colonial expansion [...] particularly [...] after the great Indian famines of 1876 [...].

Text by: Richard Grove and Vinita Damodaran. "Imperialism, Intellectual Networks, and Environmental Change: Origins and Evolution of Global Environmental History, 1676-2000: Part I". Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 41, No. 41. 14 October 2006

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The “planetary consciousness” produced by this systemizing of nature [in eighteenth-century European science] […] increased the mobility of paradise discourse [...]. As European colonial expansion accelerated, the homogenizing transformation of people, economy and nature which it catalyzed also gave rise to a myth of lost paradise, which served as a register […] for obliterated cultures, peoples, and environments [devastated by that same European colonization], and as a measure of the rapid ecological changes, frequently deforestation and desiccation, generated by colonizing capital. On one hand, this myth served to suppress dissent by submerging it in melancholy, but on the other, it promoted the emergence of an imperialist environmental critique which would motivate the later establishment of colonial botanical gardens, potential Edens in which nature could be re-made. However, the subversive potential of the “green” critique voiced through the myth of endangered paradise was defused by the extent to which growing environmental sensibilities enabled imperialism to function more efficiently by appropriating botanical knowledge and indigenous conservation methods, thus continuing to serve the purposes of European capital.

Marietta, Georgia, sits near the center of Cobb County in northwest metro Atlanta, about 20 miles from downtown Atlanta. This historic city traces its roots to the 1830s and played roles in early state politics, the Civil War, and regional development. Marietta combines rich architectural heritage with modern community growth while preserving parks and green spaces that define its residential character.

Marietta lies in USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 8a, meaning average annual extreme minimum temperatures range roughly from 10 °F to 15 °F. The local climate is humid subtropical: summers are hot and humid with average highs in the 80s °F (often near 90 °F) and frequent summer rainfall. Winters are generally mild with average highs in the 50s °F and lows near freezing, and only occasional light snowfall.

New Image Tree Solutions gathered essential tree permit information about Marietta’s tree removal requirements, arborist resources, and when a permit is or isn’t necessary so property owners and professionals can navigate the process confidently.

Marietta Tree Removal Permits - When They’re Required

Within Marietta city limits, tree removal rules vary depending on property type and circumstances:

Click here to download Marietta’s Tree Removal Permit form

Residential Single-Family Properties

No general permit requirement exists for homeowners wishing to remove trees on their own residential lot. Property owners can typically remove trees without notifying the city.

However, address hazardous trees (dead, dying, diseased, or structurally unsound) responsibly. Failure to act may be considered negligence if a tree later causes damage.

Commercial, Multi-Family, and Apartment Properties

Tree removal permits are required for non-emergency tree removal or landscape improvement efforts on commercial or multi-family parcels.

Before removal, applicants must submit a Tree Removal Permit Application along with supporting documentation such as site plans, tree species information, diameter measurements, health reports from an arborist or landscape architect, and photographs.

Trees in Public Spaces or Rights-of-Way

Trees adjacent to streets, in the public right-of-way, or on city-owned land generally require coordination with city departments before removal. Emergencies like storm damage should be reported to the Streets Division.

Specimen and Protected Trees

Large or significant specimen trees on certain properties may receive additional consideration under Marietta’s Tree Protection and Landscaping Ordinance; removal may involve stricter review and replacement requirements.

Where to Apply and Key City Contacts

For permit and tree-related inquiries:

Click here to download Marietta’s Tree Removal Permit form

City of Marietta - Planning & Zoning/Development Services

Shelby Little - Planning & Zoning Office Manager Email: [email protected] Phone: 770-794-5671 Address: 205 Lawrence Street, Second Floor, Marietta, GA 30060

Additional Contacts

Rusty Roth - Development Services, Planning & Zoning Email: [email protected] Phone: 770-794-5670

Rich Deckman - Parks & Open Space Manager Email: [email protected] Phone: 770-794-5607

Donnie Lyle - Street Supervisor Phone: 770-794-5678

Applications and documentation can be submitted in person, by mail, by fax (770-794-5655), or by email to the contacts above.

When a Permit Isn’t Typically Needed

Property owners usually do not need a tree removal permit when:

Removing trees on residential private property not subject to development review.

Trees have fallen due to a storm or emergency and pose an immediate hazard; report the incident promptly if removal occurs without prior city contact.

Trees are in poor health or dead and removal is necessary for safety and there’s no land-disturbing activity requiring broader permitting.

Always verify individual circumstances with city staff before beginning removal.

When to Call an Arborist

Even when permits aren’t required, certified arborists bring crucial expertise:

Tree health assessment: Identify disease, pest damage, and structural issues early.

Documentation support: Provide arborist reports required for commercial permits or insurance claims.

Complex removals: Recommend safe removal strategies for large trees near structures, utilities, or steep terrain.

Storm damage response: Evaluate risks after severe weather and document hazardous conditions for any necessary city reporting.

If you’re uncertain about a tree’s condition, calling a professional arborist ahead of removal reduces risk and supports compliance with local regulations.

Why Call New Image Tree Solutions (404) 680-0041

Choosing New Image Tree Solutions ensures:

Regulatory Guidance: Assistance navigating Marietta’s permit process, including documentation and submission tips.

Certified Arbor Expertise: Arborist evaluations that clarify whether removal, pruning, or preservation makes sense.

Safety and Compliance: Professional crews that follow industry standards for safe tree removal and debris management.

Emergency Support: Rapid response when storm damage creates hazards threatening life or property.

Our team combines local knowledge with arboricultural proficiency to protect your investment and keep landscapes healthy.

When to Have Trees, Shrubs, and Plants Pruned or Removed

Natural Causes

Storm damage: Broken limbs, cracked trunks, or root destabilization from high winds.

Disease or infestation: Infections or pests that compromise structural integrity.

Death or decline: Trees that no longer exhibit healthy growth and pose a safety concern.

Landscape Management

Overcrowding: Trees and shrubs too close together or competing for light and soil nutrients.

Construction impact: Roots damaged by excavation or heavy equipment.

Risk to structures: Roots threatening foundations, walkways, or utilities.

Examples When Permits Are Not Needed

A homeowner removes a diseased or dead tree on residential property.

A limb breaks in a storm and the tree must be trimmed back to safeguard the property.

Seasonal pruning for health and clearance when no land disturbance is involved.

Even when permits are not required, documenting health concerns and conditions can help avoid future liability.

Key Takeaways for Marietta Tree Removal Permit Requirements

Understanding Marietta’s tree removal process helps property owners and professionals mitigate risk and comply with city requirements. Here’s what matters most:

Residential vs. Commercial Rules: Homeowners generally may remove trees on their private lots without permits, while commercial and multi-family properties require a permit for non-emergency removal.

Hazard and Emergency Trees: If a tree is dead, diseased, or presents an imminent hazard, it must be addressed. If removal happens before city review due to immediate danger, document the conditions and notify appropriate city departments.

Public Property and Right-of-Way: Trees within public easements, streets, or parks are subject to city oversight. Contact the Streets Division or Parks Department before work begins.

Permit Submission Details: Permit applications require tree location, species, diameter at breast height, photographs, and arborist reports. Expect a standard review period (about 10 business days).

Specimen Tree Considerations: Larger or significant trees may be protected and require special review; preservation is encouraged.

Arborist Role: Consulting a certified arborist can clarify tree health, support permit documentation, and improve safety when trees are near structures or utilities.

Liability Awareness: Failing to address dangerous trees on your property may lead to liability for resulting damages, even if no permit was required initially.

Understanding these requirements and engaging professionals when needed promotes safe, lawful, and sustainable tree management in Marietta.

Tree Removal Permit Requirements for Marietta, Ga

In this article you discovered how Marietta handles tree removal permits, where permits are necessary, when they’re not, and how city departments can support your project from planning through compliance. You also learned when arborist expertise benefits your decision-making and how expert services from New Image Tree Solutions can streamline the process.

Taking the right steps ensures healthier landscapes, smoother permit approvals, and safer properties with reduced risk of fines or delays. Hiring qualified experts and letting the city review required applications gives you confidence that tree removal is lawful, safe, and efficient.

Conversely, neglecting to follow these guidelines can cause costly setbacks, regulatory violations, and even legal liability if hazardous trees cause injury or damage without proper documentation or professional oversight.

Sources: mariettaga.gov/295/Applications-Permits planthardiness.ars.usda.gov gatrees.org/urban-community-forestry

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A leaking roof typically begins with small and subtle signs. It often starts with a water stain, a missing shingle, or a slight draft that raises utility bills. Many homeowners ignore early warning signs because they are unsure who to call, what repairs may cost, or whether a full replacement is required. That uncertainty leads to stress, property damage, and rising expenses. Understanding residential roofing services before a crisis occurs gives you clarity, control, and confidence when protecting your home.

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Free Service Quotes

After inspection, homeowners receive a clear, itemized service quote. Each proposal outlines recommended repairs or replacement options, material selections, project scope, and timeline. Transparent pricing removes uncertainty and allows comparison among system types based on budget and performance goals.

Roof System Types Explained

Selecting a roofing system involves balancing durability, aesthetics, climate performance, and cost. Below are core residential options offered by New Image Roofing Atlanta.

Metal Roofing

Metal roofing systems are manufactured from steel, aluminum, or copper panels. Lifespan typically ranges from 40 to 70 years, depending on material quality and maintenance.

Metal offers high wind resistance, fire resistance, and superior durability. Panels are installed with concealed fasteners or standing seam profiles, reducing the risk of leaks. Proper underlayment and thermal movement allowances are critical during installation. Metal also reflects solar radiation, contributing to energy efficiency.

Asphalt Shingle Roofing

Asphalt shingles remain popular due to affordability and design versatility. Architectural shingles typically last 20 to 30 years, depending on the climate and the ventilation.

Installation involves a layered underlayment, ice and water shield protection, flashing, and ridge ventilation. Proper nailing patterns and alignment are crucial to prevent blow-offs during storms. Asphalt systems provide reliable performance when installed by experienced professionals.

Modern Flat Roof Systems

Modern flat roof systems are typical in contemporary residential designs and low-slope structures. Materials may include TPO, PVC/Duro-Last, BUR, or modified bitumen membranes. Lifespan typically ranges from 20 to 30 years, depending on system selection.

Installation requires precision seam welding, drainage planning, insulation layering, and edge detail reinforcement. Poor slope design can cause ponding water, which shortens the lifespan. Professional installation ensures watertight performance.

Energy Efficient Cool Roofing

Cool roofing systems are engineered to reflect more sunlight and absorb less heat compared to traditional materials. These systems may include reflective shingles, coated metal panels, or specialized membranes.

By reducing surface temperature, cool roofing lowers attic heat gain and decreases HVAC strain. This means energy savings and improved indoor comfort. Installation must include proper ventilation to maximize thermal performance.

New Construction Roofing

New construction projects demand coordination with builders, architects, and project managers. Roofing design must align with structural load requirements, ventilation planning, drainage strategy, and aesthetic vision.

New Image Roofing Atlanta installs roofing systems in accordance with architectural specifications, local building codes, and manufacturer guidelines. Early collaboration helps prevent design conflicts in the construction process.

Blueprint Projects

Blueprint projects involve executing roofing plans based on architectural drawings and engineering documentation. These projects require technical precision, material specification compliance, and scheduling coordination with other trades.

Accurate interpretation of plans ensures structural integrity and warranty validity. Skilled crews deliver installations that meet performance standards and design intent.

New Image Roofing Atlanta Maintenance Contract

Preventive maintenance is crucial for extending the roof’s lifespan and avoiding premature replacement. A structured roof maintenance contract includes scheduled inspections, debris removal, minor repairs, sealant reinforcement, and drainage cleaning.

Routine maintenance identifies cracked flashing, loose fasteners, membrane shrinkage, granule loss, and ventilation issues. Addressing small deficiencies early prevents water infiltration and insulation damage.

Maintenance contracts also support the manufacturer’s warranty compliance. Many warranties will require documented service records to remain valid. Consistent upkeep protects investment and reduces lifecycle cost.

Why Hire New Image Roofing Atlanta

Choosing a roofing contractor involves trust, expertise, and accountability. New Image Roofing Atlanta was selected as a Best of Buckhead 2026 Winner for Roofing Services, reflecting commitment to craftsmanship and customer satisfaction.

The company emphasizes clear communication, punctual scheduling, and detailed project management. Licensed and insured crews follow industry standards and safety protocols. Material partnerships ensure access to high-quality roofing products backed by manufacturer warranties. Consider the following:

Versatile Installation and Maintenance Skills – Skilled teams trained in shingle, low-slope, and green roof systems. Proven Track Record – A portfolio of successful projects across retail, industrial, healthcare, and office sectors. Collaborative Approach – Seamless communication with architects, engineers, and general contractors ensures on-time delivery. Commitment to Quality – Meticulous installation and maintenance methods backed by warranties, skill, and dedicated customer service. BBB Accredited Business – New Image Roofing Atlanta is an accredited A+ rated roofing contractor.

Homeowners benefit from experienced professionals who prioritize long-term performance rather than short-term fixes. Award recognition reinforces dedication to excellence within the Atlanta residential market.

Residential Roofing Services

You discovered how comprehensive inspections, due diligence assessments, transparent quotes, and diverse roofing system options support informed decision making. You learned how metal, asphalt, flat roofing, cool roofing, new construction, and blueprint services differ in material performance and installation requirements. You also saw how maintenance contracts and professional expertise extend a roof’s lifespan.

Taking action protects your home, stabilizes energy costs, and preserves property value. A properly installed and maintained roof delivers peace of mind through every season while minimizing unexpected repair expenses.

Ignoring roof care invites water intrusion, insulation damage, mold growth, and structural deterioration. Delayed repairs can result in full replacement costs that strain budgets. Proactive roofing services prevent avoidable loss and safeguard long-term investment.

Sources: pubs.ext.vt.edu/content/dam/pubs_ext_vt_edu/2908/2908-9023/BSE-310.pdf energy.gov/energysaver/cool-roofs

New Image Roofing Atlanta

2020 Howell Mill Rd NW Suite 232 Atlanta, GA30318 (404) 680-0041

NOBODY needs to be defending these people. Major publishers, studios, streaming services, Tesla, Apple, Adobe, Amazon, social media companies- there isnt a single altruistic bone caught in their teeth. Profit from the output of exploited and captive labor IS their product now. When their contacts look like the one in question, the company is clearly stating that shareholders are the customers, not us!

Why else would it be anything but a stupid idea for Amazon to just nuke the majority of Comixology's self-published titles when they consolidated their services? If our experience was really foremost in their minds, why would they repeatedly purge, censor, demonitize, bury, and delete popular accounts with robust followings if not to allay the moral brainworms of shareholders and investors?

Forfeiting rights to our IP is not a "shitty deal," it's surrendering any potential ability to make money off of your own creative work. It's selling your property to a board of accountants to pitch into a portfolio. It's theirs to trot out as long as it's profitable and bury the instant its projected profit dips too close to the cost of maintenance. Hell, we've seen services drop popular series just because their projected profits started to flatten out! Mothballing it also has the added bonus of removing it from the market to further minimize potential competition. Like how there just weren't spider man movies for ages because the owner of the property didn't think it was worth developing but worth too much to sell.

They will make more money from suing you for trying to reclaim IP they mothballed than you did selling it to them in the first place. I guaranteee their budget for lawsuits is a lot deeper than the one they pay their "original" artists from.

By virtue of being a big, profitable, corporation, "their" IP is going to have an astronomically higher value in a court of law than any individual creator. The financial "damage" will be higher for infringing on their copyrights than any amount you can claim on your own. When it becomes theirs, their connections, their infrastructure, their reputation makes it an asset with much more value than you or I can possibly claim. So if you try to steal a bite back from them it's a bite of a *potentially* multimillion-dollar series. In their eyes, they bought the totality of your work, which you agreed was worth the price they gave you. It's value becomes more dependent on who owns it than whether it's even good.

You may not have the same potential to become flash-in-the-pan, short-term succesful without their resources, but you will still own your rights to distribute, alter, preserve, promote, and negotiate your share if you still own your work. That is worth everything as a creator who is passionate about what you've made and committed to protecting it.

The most effective power we can exercise as artists is our ability to say, "no" when someone else wants to pay us a disadvantageous fraction of our worth. You may lose potentially lucrative opportunities but "opportunities" presented by companies like Facebook or Twitter, whose real product is a platform for ads and data collection, with content as bait, are not opportunities to thrive on as independent artists. This specifically is an opportunity for the company to acquire property.

The myth that the publisher's strength is something for us to exploit, without them getting the lion's share is a trap that they feed from at will.

People like the poster up top are opportunists who see the process as a pipeline towards trading low-investment content for financial treats and maybe a share of ad revive. They're stalking horses for companies to exploit more talented but less experienced artists who are facing a daunting and overwhelming market where their work becomes harder and harder to show, let alone sell. A quick deal may feel like a win but it's selling the cow to save money on bottling the milk. Artists like this serve the publisher by making it seem like signing away your rights are just a necessary part of the game. However it's a game they are playing with exceedingly cheap stakes that weren't going to succeed on their own merit. So what if Mr. Business Perspective loses rights to his sexy Mario Bros. parody to a huge company? The point was always to unload it because it's a product, a bartering chip, a trinket. He's a Business Man, so he sees tactics that maximize profits to the business as maximizing their ability to buy whatever shiny tripe he cranks out. The business is his customer, not the reader. The business is his ally, not the creative community. Fuck him and fuck anyone who tells you the exposure is worth a damn if you don't retain rights to your work.

Maintaining clean gutters is essential for preserving your home’s structural integrity and preventing costly repairs. Professional gutter cleaning services offer a practical solution to remove debris, ensure proper water drainage, and extend the lifespan of your gutter system. This summary highlights the importance, benefits, and considerations of hiring gutter cleaning services to safeguard your property.

Why Invest in Gutter Cleaning Services?

Clogged gutters can lead to overflowing water, which damages roofs, erodes landscaping, and causes basement flooding. Over time, stagnant water attracts pests and promotes mold growth. Gutter cleaning services eliminate leaves, twigs, and sediment, ensuring gutters function efficiently. Experts also inspect for issues like rust, leaks, or sagging sections, addressing minor problems before they escalate.

Benefits of Professional Expertise

Opting for gutter cleaning services provides advantages over DIY efforts. Trained technicians use specialized tools, such as high-pressure vacuums and gutter scoops, to clear blockages safely and thoroughly. They follow safety protocols to avoid ladder-related risks, a common hazard for homeowners. Many gutter cleaning services also offer gutter guard installation, reducing future maintenance needs.

The Process of Gutter Maintenance

A typical gutter cleaning services visit begins with a detailed inspection to identify problem areas. Technicians manually remove debris before flushing gutters and downspouts with water to test flow. They also check for structural issues, tighten loose brackets, and realign misaligned sections. Post-service, providers often share a report outlining gutter condition and recommendations.

Choosing the Right Provider

When selecting gutter cleaning services, prioritize licensed, insured companies with positive customer reviews. Transparent pricing—often based on linear footage or property size—is crucial. Look for providers familiar with regional challenges, such as heavy rainfall or frequent storms, to ensure tailored solutions.

Cost-Effectiveness and Long-Term Savings

While gutter cleaning services involve upfront costs, they prevent expensive repairs like roof replacements, foundation fixes, or mold remediation. Many companies offer seasonal discounts or maintenance packages, making biannual cleanings affordable. Regular upkeep also enhances gutter durability, delaying the need for full replacements.

DIY vs. Professional Gutter Cleaning

Though some homeowners attempt DIY cleaning, gutter cleaning services ensure comprehensive results. Professionals spot hidden issues like rotting fascia boards or pest nests that untrained individuals might miss. Their expertise minimizes the risk of accidental damage to gutters or roofing during the process.

Post-Service Maintenance Tips

After using gutter cleaning services, consider installing gutter guards to reduce debris accumulation. Trim overhanging branches and schedule annual inspections, particularly before rainy seasons. These steps help maintain optimal performance and extend the lifespan of your gutter system.

Environmental and Aesthetic Benefits

Beyond functionality, gutter cleaning services enhance curb appeal by preventing unsightly stains from overflowing water. Proper drainage also protects flower beds and soil from erosion, preserving your landscaping investments.

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