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park. The City knew that the park had
been used by the public for sledding for
many years, and it was aware of prior
incidents in which persons sledding in
the park had collided with trees.
In the late 1990s, the City began planning to restore and renovate Memorial Park. The primary purpose was to
improve the park's infrastructure. The
project involved planting 300 new trees.
The City held meetings to hear public comment on the project. At the ﬁrst
meeting held on March 7, 1997, attendees commented on " the essence,
character, image, and purpose of Memorial Park, " which included " sledding
opportunities. "
At a second meeting on April 25, attendees commented that new plantings
should be avoided in the area of the

park used for sledding. Mary Slaven, a
park planner and the project manager
for the City's reforestation project, understood these comments to mean that
trees should not be planted in the area
of the park used for sledding. Slaven
thus made that one of her goals in planning the renovation project. But Slaven
did not know which speciﬁc area of the
park was used for sledding.
During one meeting, one person
showed Slaven the general area used
for sledding, and city forester Philip Pierce offered to show her the area
more speciﬁcally " when the time came. "
Slaven understood this to mean that
when the time came for plantings to
be made, she would contact Pierce in
order to avoid planting trees in the sledding area. Pierce was familiar with the

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sledding area at the park.
Despite this offered assistance,
Slaven moved forward on the project
without soliciting information from
Pierce and without observing sledding
activity in the park. Trees were planted
in 1998, including a set of small crab
apple trees, which were placed on the
southeast slope of the park next to a
sidewalk.
After this initial renovation project
was completed, federal funds became
available to plant 500 additional trees
in Memorial Park. In conjunction with
the new reforestation project, Slaven
asked Pierce to identify the sledding
area on an aerial photograph. In April
1999, Pierce went to the park to view
the crab apple trees and recommended
that they be moved, partly because he

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