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Board of Appeals approves removal of two Buena Vista street trees with six-tree replacement and maintenance condition
Summary
The Board of Appeals granted Buena Vista LLC’s appeal of a Public Works denial to remove two street trees at 737 Buena Vista Ave. West, conditioning the order on planting six 48-inch box trees, payment of an in‑lieu fee and a property-owner obligation to maintain and water replacements for three years.
The San Francisco Board of Appeals on Feb. 1 approved an agreed order allowing the removal of two street trees at 737 Buena Vista Avenue West, with conditions negotiated between the property owner and the Bureau of Urban Forestry.
Appellant counsel Daniel Turner and homeowner Joby Pritzker presented a mitigation plan developed with Public Works that would remove one tree judged in poor condition and one judged fair and replace them with six 48‑inch box trees — five along the owner’s frontage and one replacing a vandalized tree on the adjacent parcel —…
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