The Urban Forestry Commission has expressed disapproval with an electric utility’s proposal to remove a portion of mature trees in a beloved city park, to make way for new and upgraded transmission lines.

PGE’s plans include shifting the location of one power pole and rewiring a segment of existing transmission line to it, and installing two poles to support a new 1,400-foot transmission line. Both the upgraded and new lines would run from just inside Forest Park, across Highway 30, to PGE’s Harborton substation on the Willamette River.