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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 commission's goal
is 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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