Ogden (Utah). Mayor

This series contains applications submitted to the City for permission to plant, trim, or remove trees on public property in the city.

This series contains applications submitted to the city for a permit to conduct work on trees along public streets. The city council adopted an ordinance in January 1908 dictating that it was unlawful to "plant, trim, spray, remove, destroy, cut, deface, or in any way injure any tree or shrub in any of the the streets, avenues, parks or public highways . . . without first applying for and obtaining a permit." The Board of Park Commissioners created an application form to facilitate compliance with the ordinance. Most of the applications came from property owners for doing work with trees in front of their property. Some applications came from streetcar or utility companies who dealt with trees in providing services. Some applications appear to have been initiated by parties interested in undertaking tree work, while others were in response to a notification by the city that work needed to be done. After the Board of Park Commissioners was dissolved in 1914, the applications were directed to the Superintendent of Parks and Public Property. The applications include such information as the application date, name of the applicant, address where the work was to be done, description of the work, date by which the work would be completed, and the signature of the applicant. The surviving file boxes in which the applications were stored in the office have been maintained with the records as physical evidence of office practice and technology of the period.