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**Safety Hazard**: The trees at Garrity Grove Park are more than 50 years old. My wife and I have lived here for a long time and just in the past 3 years more than 13 trees have fallen in the park. It’s only a matter of time until someone is injured and the citizens of Chicopee have to pay for that lawsuit. There are very old trees adjacent to the home that is on the corner of Mercedes and Peter. Branches continue to fall on their fence, garage and vehicles. The trees in this park are hollow and riddled with bugs. Maple, Pine, Birch and any others. The trees need to be removed, stumps need to be ground, the ground needs to be seeded and a few new trees should be planted next year. But waiting for these trees to just fall and leaving the stumps for bugs, ants, roaches to feed on is simply irresponsible, unsafe and unsanitary as bugs carry illness.
This is the 3rd fence those folks have replaced adjacent to Garrity Park, as my wife and I have watched some of the landscaping folks hit their fence with equipment, fall against it and large branches falling on it. Plus they have to clean up the “PARKS’” leaves every year. That is the parks responsibility. Branches hanging over their yard are of an extreme safety concern before winter.