Of the rule book being changed four times in the past fiveyears its time to change it again. We need to reprioritize mature trees to sequester as much carbon as possible. Replacement trees have to be evergreen. When the trees have already dropped their leaves. These replacements absolutely have to be evergreen. The city of San Francisco needs to realize its tree protocol subject to Climate Change and take action or we wont be in a position to recover. Maam, thank you. Next. Welcome. Hi. My name is brook armstrong. I had a business in hayes valley for ten years. Ive been in San Francisco for almost 40. I have an issue of trust with the dpw. My business is on franklin street. And they just took down two large beautiful trees last week without notice. Its frustrating because two years ago they took down another tree in front of my building without notice and it remains a hole in the ground. So for two years they have not replaced that tree. So i feel dubious about what they are saying. It
Octavia. It was not the biggest one out there. It split in half. If you think about it buses get in accidents all the time and people get hurt but for the common good of the city, we have buses. So i think trees are very similar to that. I mean i unfortunately, i live on the side of town and they planted palm trees all the way down the street. They look horrible. I mean, they look miserable. And they dont do anything as far as what they are taking out as far as carbon monoxide. Its kind of a weed. So it saddens me to see that we are taking this many trees out like wholesale. And what is the survival rate for a new tree . Theres typically a two to four percent mortality of replacement trees. Only four percent . You are saying 98 percent survive. Of trees that are planted yes. When proposition e was suggested, we absolutely wanted to see i did want to answer that. Because maintenance was a challenge. And the mayor initiated the planning of a lot of trees. Tree advocates say whoa, how abo
If you have an argument in the city where the elites, the rich people they have plenty of housing. Theres no problem. Its the majority of people, the core worker in the city. The not underclass, middle who is not served by affordable housing, or work for affordable housing, or anything like this. When we do Something Like this this is what bothers me. You are taking an and elation of a dozen items that will serve a group of individuals who by this one type of car that is no less six pensive than 30,000, and extend to over 100,000. Which currently, inclusive of every person in the city is far less than 5 , and if anybody wants to come up with the metric to deny my less than 5 , i would love to hear it. In that, so, we are making a big compromise for an elitist group. If this was while charging stations that was going to charge electronic vehicles, from fiat 500 down to chevy volt, two teslas, i have a different opinion. I have a completely different opinion. Then we are serving a broade
Canopy at Washington Squares in terms of tree species, size and proposed planting schedule. I would like to ask Telegraph Hill dwellers and all largescale removals going forward, because they didnt this time around. Yet, we are the largest, oldest, best known Neighborhood Organization in north beach. If the city wants to build a relationship of trust, and transparency, especially after what happened at the playground on the loss of our little fore forest, it makes sense to work with the neighborhood. Now, we have heard all of us are the replacements of choice for the ficus along the 600 block of columbus. We were not consulted as to the species, even though all of dusn that magnolias, i hardy evergreen street tree, which sequester ten times more carbon, and they soak up four times more stormwater. We would like to be consulted on these kinds of decisions. Thank you. Thank you. We will not hear from mr. Carnes. Welcome. Would see i have my talk slides on this thing. Here come the marine
Garage or driveway is a most common example. There is a big way, if the tree can be removed and replaced, we just do we cant do the appraised value because we are not losing a planting site. We are working on actually tightening up our code a little bit to beef it up in the phase of development. Right now, one of the other triggers, when there is traction triggers that reek wire Tree Planting, linear frontage. One tree, or in lieu fee is required per 20 feet of frontage area typical 25 foot wide singlefamily home reek is the tree or in lieu fee. Lets say there are no trees that require planting one tree. That is not triggered with this particular application. If it was we would be looking at all frontages of the entire parcel and add up 20 linear feet and figure out if they are short trees are yet it is Development Impact fee. Again, the average house requires one. That is a trigger that does not involve, or is in play here, but that is in play for driveways. I dont know if ive answere