i'm rob isaacson i'm with the ownership when is laguna hayes, llc i want to introduce marta fry are m f la we're fortunate to have marta as a our architect she's worked for us in the past and a long time resident in the past and responsible for the greening committee she knows this issue as well as anybody thank you. >> good evening marta fry i wanted to give a brief history of our tree application and appeals process that is eaten i'll go into more detail the proposed new 580 hating street the question was read the removal of two trees within our sidewalk and public right-of-way the responsibility of the prove or disprove the adjacent prove or disprove i'm sure you're aware of we requested those be replaced with red maples we want to add more trees but feel appropriate trees this was primarily due to the condition of the fikdz trees permission to remove those trees was noticeably denied and this was the protection application we appealed dpw appeal denial and the department of urban forestry we considered their inspectors opinion and agreed those are trees were struggling come down l