Unfortunately, i live on the side of town and they planted palm trees all the way down the street. They look horrible. I mean, they look miserable. And they dont do anything as far as what they are taking out as far as carbon monoxide. Its kind of a weed. So it saddens me to see that we are taking this many trees out like wholesale. And what is the survival rate for a new tree . Theres typically a two to four percent mortality of replacement trees. Only four percent . You are saying 98 percent survive. Of trees that are planted yes. When proposition e was suggested, we absolutely wanted to see i did want to answer that. Because maintenance was a challenge. And the mayor initiated the planning of a lot of trees. Tree advocates say whoa, how about we get funding for maintaining the existing trees. We have that now. So actually the trees that we are planting we can guarantee longterm funding for. Okay. We are working hard on getting that funding. We have already made progress this year, t
Of the rule book being changed four times in the past fiveyears its time to change it again. We need to reprioritize mature trees to sequester as much carbon as possible. Replacement trees have to be evergreen. When the trees have already dropped their leaves. These replacements absolutely have to be evergreen. The city of San Francisco needs to realize its tree protocol subject to Climate Change and take action or we wont be in a position to recover. Maam, thank you. Next. Welcome. Hi. My name is brook armstrong. I had a business in hayes valley for ten years. Ive been in San Francisco for almost 40. I have an issue of trust with the dpw. My business is on franklin street. And they just took down two large beautiful trees last week without notice. Its frustrating because two years ago they took down another tree in front of my building without notice and it remains a hole in the ground. So for two years they have not replaced that tree. So i feel dubious about what they are saying. It
Octavia. It was not the biggest one out there. It split in half. If you think about it buses get in accidents all the time and people get hurt but for the common good of the city, we have buses. So i think trees are very similar to that. I mean i unfortunately, i live on the side of town and they planted palm trees all the way down the street. They look horrible. I mean, they look miserable. And they dont do anything as far as what they are taking out as far as carbon monoxide. Its kind of a weed. So it saddens me to see that we are taking this many trees out like wholesale. And what is the survival rate for a new tree . Theres typically a two to four percent mortality of replacement trees. Only four percent . You are saying 98 percent survive. Of trees that are planted yes. When proposition e was suggested, we absolutely wanted to see i did want to answer that. Because maintenance was a challenge. And the mayor initiated the planning of a lot of trees. Tree advocates say whoa, how abo