Petition to Save Trees Around Main Library in San Francisco
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...