There are one hundred and 5 thousand trees in San Francisco and the estimate of the city where we dont have a good consensus of centralizing because theyre not planted with a permit and in addition areas like sunset that are like park and Inventory Data on the trees is not one hundred percent accurate so currently thats our estimate after having transferred just over 6 thousand trees to Property Owners about 70 thousands are the maintenance of the adjacent Property Owners we anticipate after the program puc will continue to maintain 189 or 18 thousand 6 hundred trees located in public mediums or areas adjacent to public lands for Property Owners to take care of the property trees we have not inspected the trees because we dont have the resources and supervisor wiener there are a number of trees we were not able to transfer because theyve been neglected because of our inability to prune them we have to fix the sidewalks before transferring them to the prove or disprove we transferred 3
Exemption for that. Theres no exemption for that at the time. Thanks. Ill quickly go over the process that is outlined in the public works so article 16 to transfer the maintenance to the adjacent Property Owners but outlines the steps so prior to the transfer of trees the are tree needs to be inspected theres no immediate maintenance required we have to post a notice on the tree and provide information for tree care and address concerns and have a public hearing as requested by someone that has received a street tree so, now some of the challenges for the tree transfer we have many Property Owners that are unwilling to care for their trees theyre facing maintenance and some of the trees are large trees maintained by the city tend to be healthy and larger so if we are transferring those trees in many cases are transferring robust trees to Property Owners one of the biggest concerns of the concerns of qualify of cares and the destruction of trees and loss the efficiency of scale by havi
Public works so article 16 to transfer the maintenance to the adjacent Property Owners but outlines the steps so prior to the transfer of trees the are tree needs to be inspected theres no immediate maintenance required we have to post a notice on the tree and provide information for tree care and address concerns and have a public hearing as requested by someone that has received a street tree so, now some of the challenges for the tree transfer we have many Property Owners that are unwilling to care for their trees theyre facing maintenance and some of the trees are large trees maintained by the city tend to be healthy and larger so if we are transferring those trees in many cases are transferring robust trees to Property Owners one of the biggest concerns of the concerns of qualify of cares and the destruction of trees and loss the efficiency of scale by having one prove or disprove maintain one tree and another company to be hired to do the maintenance this is what i mentioned 24 i
Believe the transfer of the responsibility to prove or disprove is not ideal but important i want to emphasize the department has taken this over but industry standards say that trees are pruned every 43 to 5 years but were on a schedule for 10 years lack of the maintenance were well aware of the fears just a quick snapshot of the state of urban forest Property Owners have had the rocket for 2 3rds of the trees and the department 1 3rd under the proposed program well continue to maintain a number of trees in the public medium and in the public facilities by the majority of the street trees adjacent to private property is transferred to the private Property Owners for maintenance this justice an example of decline of resources and the impact on the pruning cycle as you can see in our had a deal 19 arborists and over time this has declined and currently only 11 arborists i note that acknowledging the shortfall from funding recently to launch an arrest warrant above the Apprenticeship Pro
The San Francisco Land Use Economic Development committee im supervisor wiener the chairman of the committee our Committee Vice chair supervisor kim was unable to join us today so supervisor mar is sitting in place the of supervisor kim and supervisor cohen a member of the committee were also joined by the president of the board of supervisors supervisor chiu sfgovtv is broovtd toys be hearing i want to thank Jessie Larson and derrick our clerk is announcements . Yes. Please silence all electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be smoimentd to the clerk and items acted upon today will appear on the on september 4th agenda your madam clerk call one. A vacation of an area between twin peaks boulevard. Im the author of item number one colleagues speak proposal vacancies an embankment and the construction of a stairway and installation a permanent landscaping by the adjacent Property Owner curling youre going u during any rains well eventually have rai