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Important Tree Legislation Hearing
Your Support Is Needed to Protect Our Trees! Monday, December 5th, at 1pm, City Hall, room 263.
Supervisor McGoldrick needs to hear from you that he must strengthen his tree legislation to include:
1) a uniform tree protection policy for all city departments/agencies, especially RPD & the SFRA, and
2) add protection for all large healthy trees on public and privte land. Please attend, write, fax or call
the supervisors on the City Operation & Neighborhood Services Committee.
Supervisor McGoldrick needs to hear from you that he must strengthen his tree legislation to include:
1) a uniform tree protection policy for all city departments/agencies, especially RPD & the SFRA, and
2) add protection for all large healthy trees on public and privte land. Please attend, write, fax or call
the supervisors on the City Operation & Neighborhood Services Committee.
You Don’t Need to Go to the Redwood Forests to See Clear Cutting
240 Trees Cut Down At Hunter’s Point, San Francisco October, 2005
(see attach jpg file)
Alert! Your Support Is Needed to Protect Our Trees!
THE PROPOSED LANDMARK TREE LEGISLATION DOES NOT PROTECT ENOUGH TREES
It is very important that the supervisors hear your concerns. Please lend your support. Attend the tree legislation hearing City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee Monday, December 5th, at 1pm, City Hall, room 263
Currently, only 100,000 street trees require a public process before removal, leaving 568,000 San Francisco street trees with no due process. Supervisor’s McGoldrick’s landmark tree legislation will protect only 300 additional trees a year. When private property is sold to real estate developers or when large development is planned on city land no trees are protected.
Above the photo show all large trees in 64.5 acres were clear cut at Hunter’s Point, many of landmark quality. The developer’s replacement is a 15 gallon tree, approximately 5 feet tall with a trunk diameter of two inches. A canopy
and grove of equal value will not be regained for another 30 to 40 years, if ever!
Supervisor McGoldrick’s tree legislation does not include a uniform policy for all City departments, including the Recreation & Park Department and SF Redevelopment Agency.
Please tell Supervisor McGoldrick that he must strengthen his tree legislation to include: 1) a uniform tree protection policy for all city departments/agencies, especially RPD & the SFRA, and 2) add protection for all large healthy trees on public and privte land.
Out of all San Francisco’s trees only 12.9% have a trunk diameter of 16 inches or more. Over 50% of SF’s larger, mature trees have been cut down and replaced with newly planted small trees. These trees currently have a trunk diameter of only 3 to 6 inches! It will take many years before these saplings will protect our environmental health or contribute to the beauty of a mature urban forest.
If you cannot attend please tell a friend, write, fax or call Chair McGoldrick, Supervisor Bevan Dufty & Fiona Ma
Jake McGoldrick, Chair: 554-7410 phone / 554-7415 fax, jake.mcgoldrick [at] sfgov.org
Bevan Dufty: 554-6968 phone / 554-6909 fax, bevan.dufty [at] sfgov.org
Fiona Ma: 554-7460 phone / 554-7432 fax, fiona.ma [at] sfgov.org
Send letters to: Board of Supervisors, City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 244,
San Francisco, Ca 94102-4689
Carolyn Blair, Executive Director,
The San Francisco Tree Council, Inc.
Email: Carolyn [at] sftreecouncil.org,
Phone: 415-982-8793
240 Trees Cut Down At Hunter’s Point, San Francisco October, 2005
(see attach jpg file)
Alert! Your Support Is Needed to Protect Our Trees!
THE PROPOSED LANDMARK TREE LEGISLATION DOES NOT PROTECT ENOUGH TREES
It is very important that the supervisors hear your concerns. Please lend your support. Attend the tree legislation hearing City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee Monday, December 5th, at 1pm, City Hall, room 263
Currently, only 100,000 street trees require a public process before removal, leaving 568,000 San Francisco street trees with no due process. Supervisor’s McGoldrick’s landmark tree legislation will protect only 300 additional trees a year. When private property is sold to real estate developers or when large development is planned on city land no trees are protected.
Above the photo show all large trees in 64.5 acres were clear cut at Hunter’s Point, many of landmark quality. The developer’s replacement is a 15 gallon tree, approximately 5 feet tall with a trunk diameter of two inches. A canopy
and grove of equal value will not be regained for another 30 to 40 years, if ever!
Supervisor McGoldrick’s tree legislation does not include a uniform policy for all City departments, including the Recreation & Park Department and SF Redevelopment Agency.
Please tell Supervisor McGoldrick that he must strengthen his tree legislation to include: 1) a uniform tree protection policy for all city departments/agencies, especially RPD & the SFRA, and 2) add protection for all large healthy trees on public and privte land.
Out of all San Francisco’s trees only 12.9% have a trunk diameter of 16 inches or more. Over 50% of SF’s larger, mature trees have been cut down and replaced with newly planted small trees. These trees currently have a trunk diameter of only 3 to 6 inches! It will take many years before these saplings will protect our environmental health or contribute to the beauty of a mature urban forest.
If you cannot attend please tell a friend, write, fax or call Chair McGoldrick, Supervisor Bevan Dufty & Fiona Ma
Jake McGoldrick, Chair: 554-7410 phone / 554-7415 fax, jake.mcgoldrick [at] sfgov.org
Bevan Dufty: 554-6968 phone / 554-6909 fax, bevan.dufty [at] sfgov.org
Fiona Ma: 554-7460 phone / 554-7432 fax, fiona.ma [at] sfgov.org
Send letters to: Board of Supervisors, City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 244,
San Francisco, Ca 94102-4689
Carolyn Blair, Executive Director,
The San Francisco Tree Council, Inc.
Email: Carolyn [at] sftreecouncil.org,
Phone: 415-982-8793
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The City and County of San Francisco have many very ardent tree lovers but we do not have mandates to help save trees in this great City and County of San Francisco.
While we do have a permit system before anyone cuts trees in any Public Area - it is not full proof.
A case in point is Parcel A at Hunters Point. Even though Parcel A was conveyed to the City and County of San Francisco - the actual jurisdiction comes under the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency which is a quasi State agency.
It is wrong to fell so many trees but what concerns me is the position of our City on this issue. So far no one at City Hall nor from the various City Departments feels that wrong was done when hundreds of mature trees were cut down at Hunters Point and on Parcel A.
It is time for those that love trees gather on December 5 at City Hall and speak out.
Francisco Da Costa
Director
Environmental Justice Advocacy
The cut trees in the photo are eucalyptus, an invasive species imported from Australia by Southern Pacific in the hopes of growing wood for railroad ties. They never made good railroad ties, but they wreaked havoc on native ecosystems. Look under any eucalyptus grove and you will see a biological desert because of the toxic environment caused by eucalyptus leaf litter. They also increase wildfire hazard because they burn explosively. Just ask any witness to the Oakland hills fire. It would be a great day if all the invasive eucalyptus were gone. Find a real issue.
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