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Recr, and parks, thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please . My name is tony astrela and this is my daughter kristin, we moved directly across the street from the canyon we are where Diamond Heights boulevard and elk come together and when i walk out of my front door i look to the left and i see all of those trees. Kristin our house was built around a huge tree that existed for 20some odd years until a branch fell off and it was removed. If those trees are removed it will destroy the quality of life, i think. Not just for the people in glen park down by the playground, but all of the people s...

Going to go into the natural areas, we are going to cut down dozens of trees in the natural areas. That was not discussed. It was not even apparently disclosed to the Environmental Review officer. Because the Environmental Review officer specifically said that the proposed project would not involve any work in the Glen Canyon Park natural area. It wasnt. It was with that in mind, presumably and based on that information, that the planning commission, awarded the contract in august. And it is only after this appeal was filed, that the Planning Department realizes oops, in fact we are doing this...

Tree removal and we have ignored the rich pallet that has been proposed. Although it is not an ecological project, it still does offer an opportunity to increase the biological diversity of our park and neighborhood and to offer Environmental Education opportunities. Not everyone agrees that no tree should ever be removed for any reason unless it poses an immediate hazard to life or property. Trees stand very often need to be thinned for their own health and longevitity. We absolutely need trees, including the many nonnative trees that will remain, there is no deforest station proposed, contra...

Opponents of this project are not opposing renovating anything. I mean, the problem is with the trees. With the fact that they decided to move the Tennis Courts and cut down a lot of trees that do not need to be done to do any of this renovation. And the problem, part of the problem is that that was never disclosed to the community. Yes, there was plenty of input about what would you like . How would you like . What are your values etc. , etc. But at these meetings the community was not told we are going to go into the natural areas, we are going to cut down dozens of trees in the natural area...

Really until october that somehow everybody came to the realization that this was in the natural areas is really unfair to the opponents to this project and to suggest that the opponents of this project have to file another appeal, oh, no, you are not the ones who get to decide this, although i thing that the charter requires you to resolve these issues because it is not in the best interest of the public that this goes forward as planned. But to suggest that they have to go forward to the board of supervisors that would bring more delay and i think that what you need to do right now, is requi...