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There are one hundred and 5 thousand trees in San Francisco and the estimate of the city where we dont have a good consensus of centralizing because theyre not planted with a permit and in addition areas like sunset that are like park and Inventory Data on the trees is not one hundred percent accurate so currently thats our estimate after having transferred just over 6 thousand trees to Property Owners about 70 thousands are the maintenance of the adjacent Property Owners we anticipate after the...

Exemption for that. Theres no exemption for that at the time. Thanks. Ill quickly go over the process that is outlined in the 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...

We cant putdown a slippery slope we need to aggressively plant trees this is one of the worse citys ive ever seen for tree canopy it is terrible to allow scrub and brush to be considered part of trees is not going to serve the purpose of an urban landscape of defending our city from the climate warming so thank you thank you. Next speaker. My name is jake im with the formal Ad Hoc Group Meeting over the years we deal with problems of natural areas in the city your probably wondering what this ha...

Commissioner johnson. Thank you just a couple of things 1 on the street trees i actually did last time but again did a find for everything it says street trees and every it says vegetation the context makes it clear i agree that one request that was made i think those this document for a glossary i dont know we need to go that far but having a definition of trees its a simple change we dont have to change anything else but the context makes sense if you use the context of the entire package so t...

The formal Ad Hoc Group Meeting over the years we deal with problems of natural areas in the city your probably wondering what this has to do with trees we are very definitely in favor of street trees and increasing the numbers in the city but the draft plan here goes far beyond that it involves many things we sent you a letter yesterday, i hope youve had time to read it but chances are you havent there are subsequential inconsistent sisters and problems we would like to see look at professor ba...

The best way to Fund Programs especially the ones that benefit the Property Value there was a lot of work done around that how much money and other things but very little done on other methods of raising funds for Street Tree Program that are not program i want to see a rounding out having 2 pages on parcel tax and two sentences on the Community Benefit district or other mechanisms to me seem not the best that we can do so thats but so ill actually add to the motion or suggest the analysis youve...

Consistency of the page thats quite a long letter as you read through the document it says at the beginning point asterisk ill building comfortable with the language but it has to be clear what you mean. Commissioner johnson. Thank you just a couple of things 1 on the street trees i actually did last time but again did a find for everything it says street trees and every it says vegetation the context makes it clear i agree that one request that was made i think those this document for a glossar...

Ahold of language other plants to be added to the document they could use it to help their causes of cutting down trees like the trees on Mount Davison with the clierment being as bad we cant putdown a slippery slope we need to aggressively plant trees this is one of the worse citys ive ever seen for tree canopy it is terrible to allow scrub and brush to be considered part of trees is not going to serve the purpose of an urban landscape of defending our city from the climate warming so thank you...

Second. Second. To remove . With the particular a word change which mr. Star read into the record commissioner antonini. Yeah. I am supportive of the motion i thank everyone 40 who came to participate going back to the 1946 planning code that will be my first choice im supportive of the motion. Commissioners, i think the people log anything you encounter mr. Star that didnt occur right just you didnt want us on that would be a great idea for a formal report. Commissioners a we have a motion and ...

Much money and other things but very little done on other methods of raising funds for Street Tree Program that are not program i want to see a rounding out having 2 pages on parcel tax and two sentences on the Community Benefit district or other mechanisms to me seem not the best that we can do so thats but so ill actually add to the motion or suggest the analysis youve done on other mechanisms do we need to add that to the motion about the asterisk. I apologize the City Attorney for some comme...