Mount Vernon: Trees to be cut down, replaced in plan to upgrade public squares around Baltimore's Washington Monument - Baltimore, MD

Mount Vernon: Trees to be cut down, replaced in plan to upgrade public squares around Baltimore's Washington Monument - baltimoresun.com:
About 100 mature trees in the heart of Baltimore would be cut down and replaced with 118 younger trees in a slightly different configuration, if city officials adopt a private group's $18.5 million plan to upgrade the four public squares around the Washington Monument.

The Mount Vernon Place Conservancy plans to raise funds to make the improvements by mid-2015 if the city accepts its restoration plan, including the tree replacement proposal as a key element. The nonprofit group and its design team presented their recommendations Monday to Baltimore's Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation, which has legal authority over changes to the city-owned parkland.