The other trees match this subject tree species which is the new Zealand Christmas tree and, these are the patterns that we see in the middle and on to the right. Why is the subject tree so much smaller than the tree on the right of the property . Considering that they probably were planted at the same time correct . Correct. I would assume that they were planted at the same time it is hard to say, that tree does have a locality of competing branches. And when we do prune the trees, we prune the trees to enhance the structure pushp and at times we will thin out some of those stems. It could be partly because the Property Owner has been staying on top with this particular tree and making sure that it is kind of pruned, and but no, no real obvious reason, other than sometimes different trees develop larger stems do you approve the canopy or does the city just let them grow. The city staff do thin and prune the canopy of the tree, we may keep a limb and just thin out the secondary branche
Comes down to again, im really annexed initiated im having to waste my time and money to appeal that this is not reasonable im willing to put another tree back but doughnut want to keep a tree that costs media and the city liability and cause me to spend a lot more money on maintaining it and the sidewalk thank you. Ive got a question youre willing to replace what are you willing to replace it with. The arborists told me a sustainable laparoreign that didnt have as deep of a root system and unfortunately with the new Zealand Christmas tree it has invafg root system. Thank you. Thank you. Can we hear from the department . Good evening, commissioners Carol Department of public works representing the urban forestry if i could have the overhead just like to show a photograph the tree in question in the the new zealand commissioned tree the location is a climatic condition in San Francisco but this tree looks at fantastic i know the species sometimes gets a Bad Reputation it can cause infra
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
Also transferred trees to other agencies so the agencies other city agencies buildings and as a result of the program were going saying we cant do this so were making you responsible for the trees outside of their properties. It transfer doesnt save public money it is only a different action that is doing it less efficiently. It doesnt save the public money but were able to allocate that to other agencies. Other agencies part of the city budget for whatever it might be are having to spend money stay great cost per tree because they dont have the inhouse staff. Thats valid. Hi carla when our talking about transferring trees back to other agency when was that transfer made. It was done in fiscal year 20132014 and after we transferred trees to residential owners or homeowners. Yeah. Its concurly we identified the trees adjacent to other city agencies but were continuing to transfer trees to adjacent Property Owners and presumably if we come across other tree that is a city agencies respon