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
We cant putdown a slippery slope we need to aggressively plant trees this is one of the worse citys ive ever seen for tree canopy it is terrible to allow scrub and brush to be considered part of trees is not going to serve the purpose of an urban landscape of defending our city from the climate warming so thank you thank you. Next speaker. My name is jake im with the formal Ad Hoc Group Meeting over the years we deal with problems of natural areas in the city your probably wondering what this has to do with trees we are very definitely in favor of street trees and increasing the numbers in the city but the draft plan here goes far beyond that it involves many things we sent you a letter yesterday, i hope youve had time to read it but chances are you havent there are subsequential inconsistent sisters and problems we would like to see look at professor barking from the San Francisco State University sent you a letter to consider those so i would beg you to not adapt this for forward thi
Commissioner johnson. Thank you just a couple of things 1 on the street trees i actually did last time but again did a find for everything it says street trees and every it says vegetation the context makes it clear i agree that one request that was made i think those this document for a glossary i dont know we need to go that far but having a definition of trees its a simple change we dont have to change anything else but the context makes sense if you use the context of the entire package so thats fine the other thing on the Financing Mechanism i agree a commissioner hillis the best way to Fund Programs especially the ones that benefit the Property Value there was a lot of work done around that how much money and other things but very little done on other methods of raising funds for Street Tree Program that are not program i want to see a rounding out having 2 pages on parcel tax and two sentences on the Community Benefit district or other mechanisms to me seem not the best that we
The formal Ad Hoc Group Meeting over the years we deal with problems of natural areas in the city your probably wondering what this has to do with trees we are very definitely in favor of street trees and increasing the numbers in the city but the draft plan here goes far beyond that it involves many things we sent you a letter yesterday, i hope youve had time to read it but chances are you havent there are subsequential inconsistent sisters and problems we would like to see look at professor barking from the San Francisco State University sent you a letter to consider those so i would beg you to not adapt this for forward this to the general plan its not ready for the general plan thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi my name is anastasia and i want to concur with several other is speakers like why was this goal set originally to increase the economy to 25 increased i mean moved away it is well, yeah but i mean just the plan it will make protection for park trees under attack i dont