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hearing will determine fate of city trees  Residents upset with
trees being felled in advance of the Grand Prix are going into
court Monday to try to prevent any more from being taken down.
But both the mayor's and city solicitor's office say all the
cutting is done.  A group led by Dave Troy, a software
developer, is charging that officials violated city code by
failing to give the public five days' warning, posting a notice
on each tree that is targeted. In addition, the number of trees
being removed remains in dispute.  "The deal is that if they had
followed the law, the number would have been much clearer," Troy
said. "A notice would have been posted on each tree. They could
have counted them." The hearing is to be heard in Baltimore
Circuit Court.  Grand Prix officials had said that 136 trees
needed to be cut to make way for grandstands, with 139 to be
replanted after the September race. The city disputed the
figure, saying it had a memorandum of