beth roy asked me to evaluate these trees. there are a couple of points i want to add to what they have already told you. the canopies of these trees are a regular. there are gaps or openings within the structure. the problem with that is the wood is very brittle and limb failures like they've just experienced are common when you have breeches in the can of the for this type of tree. -- breaches in the canopy for this type of tree. the wind gets in there. because of the irregularitie

beth roy asked me to evaluate these trees. there are a couple of points i want to add to what they have already told you. the canopies of these trees are a regular. there are gaps or openings within the structure. the problem with that is the wood is very brittle and limb failures like they've just experienced are common when you have breeches in the can of the for this type of tree. -- breaches in the canopy for this type of tree. the wind gets in there. because of the irregularities from prior storms, and partly because of clearance problems where limbs have been damaged and have come out of the tree -- out of both of the trees -- i think those kind of canopy or structural changes in the tree have created a bigger problem, in terms of hazards. the amount and type of debris that comes out of these trees is extreme. the pods are over an inch in diameter. they are very treacherous, even on level ground. i do have some sympathy towards them. thank you. president garcia: i am assuming the sympathy is for your clients and not the

>> i am beth roy. i have lived at 270 prospect for almost 20 years. it is a corner house. the trees at issue are the side street. there is parking on one side, not the side where the trees are, but the other side. i want to take one of the precious minutes to thank ms. goldstein for working with us on getting us here today. we were rescheduled for the later time and this date landed right in the week when we were expecting a grandbaby. there was a possibility we were not want to make it, but he appeared at about 4:00 this morning. we are here. we may not be coherent. we did not get much sleep last night. but here we are. there are two issues about these trees. one is about the health of the trees. the other is about their appropriateness for the site and for the neighborhood. steve horwitz has already spoken to the issue of the appropriateness. the neighbor who had to leave also left notes and asked me to talk about how treacherous the footing is when the seed pods fall, which is pretty much constant. we are out there sweeping them up year round. i will say some more about