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Board grants Bernal Heights tree removal appeal, requires replacement planting options
Summary
The Board overruled Urban Forestry’s denial and granted a resident’s appeal to remove two street trees on Eugenia Avenue, conditioning the permit on replacement plantings (options: two 36‑inch box, three 24‑inch box, or two 24‑inch box at BUF discretion).
The San Francisco Board of Appeals on March 21 granted an appeal by Beth Roy to remove two street trees outside 270 Prospect Avenue, overruling the Department of Public Works’ Bureau of Urban Forestry (BUF) and ordering replacement plantings to be selected and installed under BUF supervision.
Roy and neighborhood residents told the board the trees regularly shed large, slippery seed pods and have sustained limb…
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