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Wilbanks, Megan
From:Genevieve Czech <
To:Advisory Bodies
Subject:August 23rd Meeting, Item #2, 600 Tank Farm Road
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Honorable Chairman Bate and Committee Members:
The 600 Tank Farm Road subdivision envisioned is intent in its current design proposal in sacrificing all but 2 of the trees
on site in the name of eliminating all risks. The premise that the trees´ age and health are fragile enough to justify their
removal is simply not true.
You will have received a detailed rebuttal from Allan Cooper to the effect that not only are those trees robust, but
proven over millennia to be resilient, to have inbuilt behavior to preserve their life under drought conditions, and home
to nesting red shouldered hawks.
Once again, you are faced with the painful dilemma of yielding to the developers´ assertions that they are justified in
removing those trees by replanting with 236 trees. We cannot assume that newly planted trees will ever achieve the
robust life needed to stabilize the riparian corridor or provide nesting for raptors.
It is more than time to call the developers for their insensitive disregard for trees, for their poorly researched claims on
the status of those trees, for their eagerness to remove trees that have a mature claim to their turf, that have
established an ecosystem. This is meant to be the enlightened generation regarding trees, their networking and
interaction with the water in the riparian corridor.
It is time to set limits upon the developers, which in this case does not represent any interference with the proposed
layout of this subdivision. RRM´s assertion that the best method to eliminate risk is to eliminate the trees is arrogant
and out of touch with the effort to create tree canopy to combat climate change.
Our ancestors cut down the trees and changed the environment thereby.
We are meant to be the informed, green generation, committed to preserving the planet, which begins in our little
parcel on this earth. Please save the trees cited by Mr. Cooper, and provide RRM Design Group the opportunity to prove
their commitment to the environment in their design.
Respectfully, Genevieve Czech, San Luis Obispo
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