A truck drives by a banyan tree March 24 on Park Avenue in Anna Maria. Anna Maria commissioners tasked city attorney Becky Vose with rewriting the landscaping ordinance to include more restrictions on how mature trees and grand trees, such as banyans, and protected trees such as mangroves, can be protected. The issue arose from recent complaints about another Park Avenue banyan being cut to a stump to make room for a new house. Islander Photo: Tal Reeve








