ms. salerno a copy, too.issioner garcia: not to jump ahead of the appellant, but the third bullet point addresses the fact that it does not make sense to require the owner to fix the sidewalk when it is going to just buckle again. not to lead you, but i am assuming that once the base is widened, somehow these words could be pruned in such a way that it would be unlikely that the sidewalk would buckle again? >> it is very difficult to see -- say how they would react, but we do know from past experience when given a wider area, many times, the roots will take the vantage rather than pushing up the sidewalk. they tended to be opportunistic and that way. we hope that will reduce the likelihood of future buckling, but we cannot guarantee that. commissioner garcia: because you can see how that would be pre- frustration for a homeowner to repair the sidewalk and just fear that it will happen again? >> sure. commissioner garcia: ok. commissioner fung: ms. short, are these the city installed and maintained trees, or a

ms. salerno, you have seven minutes. >> good evening. i am the property manager at 650 church st., and i in your to obviously appealed the denial to remove the tree. we have two major concerns with conducting the repairs -- i am here to obviously appeal the denial. one of the board members alluded to it, first being the costs associated to it, and this is just going to happen again. i am not an arborist, but i know that trees grow. i am worried that we are just going to be in this position again, in an incredibly costly dilemma, and if we can avoid undertaking that, we would love to do that, and what we have proposed, the owner, is that we would gladly replace these trees with more or but appropriate trees, much like the one the city installed they are maybe japanese maples. again, i am not an arborist. a bustling urban environment. the new zealand christmas tree is massive, and so, our concern is that we repair the sidewalk, undertake this massive financial and deborah, and in be in this position a few years down the road. another issue

ms. salerno, you also have three minutes. >> i would like to make the point that at no time during what she would be no chance of this happening again. as i mentioned, and as you know, this is incredibly costly for us. they are huge trees. they are probably the largest not fit esthetically, and we k2xsimply want to go ahead and install trees that areñr more a deuce of to an urban environment and fit in nicely with the urban block. i am not necessarily saying that removing these trees and putting in smaller ones would have an effect on the amount of crime that is happening. graffiti etched into glass, hypodermic needles, a slew of things that really tell me this is a crime had the environment. spsit tends to93 attract drug activity, so i want to do everything in my power to keep my residence and my neighbors -- that is of paramount importance to me, and i do not want to have any opportunity for anyone to be heard, which means these trees probably need to go, because the diameter, the circumference of the truck, is larger than a telephone pole for some of these trees. they are big trees. it i