Charlottetown woman with roots rippling her driveway wants city to chip in for repairs [Video]

Claudia Perez Vega looks down at her driveway with frustration. The pavement is cracked and crumbling. Roots from a row of nearby trees have popped up in places where the pavement has eroded.

Those evergreens belong to the City of Charlottetown, so Perez Vega thinks the city should pay at least half the cost of getting the driveway repaved. For about a year now, she’s been asking the city to do something about it.

“It makes sense, if something … which doesn’t belong to you causes problems,” she said. “I talked to them and I said,’Can you just put it in another perspective? What would happen if these tree [root]s would have been in your property? What would you do?'”

The city has told Perez Vega it is not obligated to do anything. In an email viewed by CBC News, the city told her there are times when the city …