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Patricia K. <
To:Trees
Cc:CityClerk
Subject:Attn: Tree Committee met 5/19 removal of trees at 327 Los Cerros drive
Follow Up Flag:Follow up
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Please forward to the Tree Committee BEFORE tonight’s (Monday 5/19) meeting at 5:30 pm.
Thanks.
P. Kohlen
Begin forwarded message:
From: Patricia K. <
Subject: Tree Committee: removal of trees at 327 Los Cerros drive
Date: May 11, 2026 at 11:53:10 AM PDT
To: trees@slocity.org, "Gault, Walter" <wgault@slocity.org>, "Cruce, Greg"
<gcruce@slocity.org>
Tree Committee,
Several things need to be considered when deciding on removal of these 3 eucalyptus
trees:
1. Notice Sign was posted on 5/11/26 - which is NOT 10 days before the hearing. They have
been taped/tagged for about 4 months which was quite confusing.
While I am OK with cutting down these trees which are highly flammable extensive
MITIGATION needs to occur:
1. About 6-8 other trees were removed without a permit from the front yard in July
2025. You can see the shoots coming up from several of these tree stumps now.
Thus the front yard will be very bare once these trees are gone.
2. MITIGATION for removing these trees needs to include planting trees in the back yard
where 95% of the trees have been removed (without a permit), including oak trees with
trunks over 10” in diameter.
This has created a barren, wasteland which now houses a dozen very large reptile
terrariums. See photos. Before all these trees were cut down and the topography changed
the back yard had
been tastefully landscaped by a mater gardener and decades-old mature trees were
established. Trees need to be planted in the back as well as the front to mitigate for the
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enormous loss of all the trees.
Patricia Kohlen
neighbor
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