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Board upholds DPW denial of tree removals at Mission Senior Housing after neighborhood split
Summary
The Board of Appeals denied an appeal seeking removal of four plane trees outside Mission Senior Housing at 1855 Fifteenth Street, upholding the Department of Public Works' decision after hearing divided neighborhood testimony and a Housing Authority reversal on support for removal.
On March 16 the Board of Appeals voted 4–0 to deny an appeal by neighborhood advocates who had sought Department of Public Works permission to remove four London plane trees in front of the Mission Senior Housing property at 1855 Fifteenth Street.
Claire Bright, representing a group of neighbors supportive of replacing the trees with evergreens, argued the existing plane trees had been improperly pruned and provided months of barren canopy. “We are appealing…
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