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Residents rally to save Civic Center trees from removal December 28, 2018

Residents rally to save Civic Center trees from removal By Laura Waxmann Dec 28, 2018 Facebook Twitter Email 1 of 2 Facebook Twitter Email Print Copy article link Save More than 1500 people have signed a petition seeking to halt the planned removal of 19 ficus trees around San Francisco’s Main Library. Signs announcing that the trees would be cut down due to safety concerns were posted earlier this year, though a timeline for the removal has not been finalized. The removal order is currently being challenged, with a hearing scheduled at the Board of Appeals on Jan. 25. As of Thursday, more than 1,745 people had signed the petition to keep the Civic Center trees in place, which says the loss would exacerbate respiratory health problems and “local climate change,” among other things. Organizers hope to get 2,500 signatures. The petition created by John Nulty, a community organizer who also filed the appeal, alleges that the mass clearing, which will be carried out by the Department...
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Save the Ficus Trees in San Francisco

https://www.change.org/p/bureau-of-urban-forestry-chris-buck-save-the-trees-around-the-main-library
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Nulty Demands Community to End to San Francisco “War Against Trees”

Nulty Demands Community to End to San Francisco “War Against Trees” Sfnewsfeed.us · Wednesday, February 27, 2019 SAN FRANCISCO, CA (2/27)- In a month or so, the seven stately ficus trees bordering Washington Square Park on Columbus Avenue in the  North Beach District, San Francisco, CA  are likely to meet their fate at the business end of a wood chipper. On Monday night, in what was probably the final appeal to save them, eight San Franciscans rose in their defense. Among them was  Michael Nulty . John Nulty, the author of the online petition speaking at the same hearing. Michael Nulty offered his comments during a San Francisco Public Works meeting to consider the plan to remove seven ficus trees along Columbus Avenue next to Washington Square. Like much of San Francisco’s ficus population, the Columbus Avenue trees have been condemned by the Public Works Department as too risky to leave standing. But Nulty pointing to the online petition by  Cha...
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Petition to Save Trees Around Main Library in San Francisco

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Save the Trees Around The Main Library in San Francisco this petition to Bureau of Urban Forestry Chris Buck and 1 other San Francisco has posted tree removal notices on a series of healthy, mature 19 (Ficus) trees on Grove and Hyde Streets in the Civic Center opposed by neighbors and merchants The lead agency for this threat is the Bureau of Urban Forestry/Department of Public Works (DPW). According to the latest tree census, there are an estimated 2,700 mature Ficus street trees planted years ago by the City in the early 1960s. DPW is acting under a 2014 standing order (#183151) to eliminate Ficus trees that neatly folds in with a recent 2016 voter initiative (Proposition E) returning maintenance of street trees to the City. Simply put, removing this many trees reduces maintenance costs in the long run for the City but also further diminishes the size and volume of our urban forest canopy, already the smallest (at 16%) of an...
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