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Policies – Roadside Vegetation Management
The roadside serves many purposes. It provides space to escape potential accidents, creates a sense of openness that contributes to driving ease and freedom from strain, improves sight distances, provides space for maintenance activities, such as snow removal and storage, and provides an area that allows for proper road drainage. The commission has instituted policies to help keep these areas reasonably clear.
- Tree removal, pruning and preservation
The Road Commission is concerned about trees that could be hazardous to the motoring public. These include dead, dying, or weakened trees; trees whose location can threaten motorists safety, and trees that affect proper road drainage. Trees may be removed or pruned to make roads safer and more convenient. Whenever possible, the Road Commission's goal is toward preservation.
- Tree Replacement
The Road Commission operates a tree replacement program that enables property owners to participate with the commission in replacing trees.
- Brush Removal and Control
To prevent brush takeover of the shoulder areas, encroaching on traveled surfaces, obstructing drivers' vision or increasing ice hazards, the Road Commission controls brush by mechanical means, hand-cutting or the application of an herbicide approved by state and federal agencies. Property owners who want to avoid the spraying of their roadside areas can obtain a No Spray Permit and remove the roadside brush and low-hanging limbs themselves.
- Roadside Weed Control
Weeds grow naturally along gravel or paved surface edges. To keep them from invading the traveled portion of the road, the Road Commission uses mowing or the application of an herbicide approved by state and federal agencies.
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