Department what is the need for pdr certainly theres a lot of pdr spates its going to stay empty when our asking spaces for pdr they have to contract theres a loopholes now i ask you to stop did madness and ask the Planning Department to do their job. Thank you thank you, sir. Supervisors mike pecuniary trades council ive been a long supporter of pdr under an understanding it has two aspects one passenger door either produces something that produces the needs of the city or the other aspect is that it employes a imply collar wells fargo like supervisor kims. This building whatever its supposed pdr function if house that function right now and it may support that or enhance f it in the city i think its telling in the Planning Departments description of the building that it did service the function at the beginning of the last density but a preforklift type of building. I think then upper left with choosing between biz businesses that serves as one of the proponent testified highend weal
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
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 responsible well transfer that. When the trees are transferred and accident homeowners are unable to pay is there some kind of a special program for a senior new tree owner. Weve investigated this and worked with we have a program for sidewalk repairs for low income Property Owners it is a loan program but very if i people take advantage of this to qualify f