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Health and wellness with things like traffic calming so some of the studies for the first serve those are overall urban forest estimates as a Capital Asset in the city the city trees if we replaced them will be 1. 7 billion each year the trees give back benefits to the city and theres an estimate theyre responsible for one hundred percent of the Property Values so this you know one of the things that San Francisco is a top list of the world stresses but many of the citys trees we have a lack of green trees as the supervisor mentioned we have one the lowest canopies of street trees in the Unite...

Jury duty your clerk is andrea ashbury and i want to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting todays hearing jonathan and the others. Madam clerk, any announcements . All electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the february 2nd, 2015 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Call item one. On ordinance to define homeless shelters. The mayor is the sponsor we have the Planning Department to present following by mr. Duffy. Good afternoon. Supervisors im kim the planner with the San Francisco...

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...