A controversy is brewing over the fate of a 100-year-old, 80-plus-foot-tall California coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) growing in the parking lot of the Boardwalk Condominiums at 1024 5th Ave S. in downtown Edmonds.  The Boardwalk Homeowners Association contends that the tree’s root system is undermining and compromising its parking area and has applied for a permit from the City of Edmonds to have the tree removed. The permit was approved on Dec. 9. Others allege that the parking area damage is insignificant, and that the permit was issued based on incomplete, inaccurate and intentionally misleading information.   Read the article…………………………….