Some 87 ficus trees on Robertson Boulevard will be cut down for a sidewalk project. For some, the removals are bittersweet. For others, they feel like a death.
The survey counted over 36 million dead trees, which is a dramatic increase, but there still may be more that were not counted.were planted in vast numbers in the 1950s and ‘60s across cities from San Diego to San Luis Obispo, shaping Southern California’s appearance.
Wendy Klenk, a business owner on Robertson Boulevard, stands in an empty sidewalk planter as she collects signatures to save the street’s ficus trees.A showroom manager for Carter Hardware on Robertson Boulevard, Carter estimated the business has paid some $15,000 to remove tree roots from their alley, clean leaf-clogged drainage pipes and more.
For Cocoe Voci, owner of a bridal atelier, the tree removals were bittersweet. She appreciated the shade the tree once provided, but it clogged drainage pipes and wrecked her ceiling. She wasn’t happy about the $2,000 expense to replace, replaster and repaint it. But some businesses said they didn’t know. Others thought the trees would just be trimmed. Few realized how dramatically, and how quickly, it would alter the block.
For one, trees adapt to the amount of shade, wind, drainage and soil microbial life of their locations. It has “basically responded to all of the environmental stimuli around it to grow in a certain way to be specific to that one site,” he said. Santillana said the city would have needed to excavate 20 feet in diameter around the tree and five feet below to replant each tree. “Therefore, the impact would have been infeasible.”
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