The red oaks along Remington Avenue, beloved by local residents, have been the flashpoint for a project that has fueled resentment toward the city’s biggest employer
Johns Hopkins University went ahead and did it. It cut down nine trees on Remington Avenue for its Data Science and AI (DSAI) Institute project despite months of protests, a petition with more than 2,000 signatures, and a community group’s last-minute cease-and-desist letter that claimed the university was acting without clear legal authority.
Visibly emotional residents watched yesterday as chainsaws whined and crews in bucket trucks brought down the small limbs and finally the big trunks of mature city-owned Northern Red Oaks and fed them into wood chippers…