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Board Upholds Urban Forestry, Denies Sheridan Hotel—s Request to Replace Mature Street Trees with Palms
Summary
The board voted 4–1 to uphold DPW Urban Forestry—s denial of a Sheridan Hotel proposal to remove mature broadleaf street trees and replace them with queen palms and specimen plantings as part of a renovation, citing ecological benefits of the existing trees.
The San Francisco Board of Appeals voted 4–1 to uphold the Department of Public Works Bureau of Urban Forestry—s denial of the Sheridan Hotel—s request to remove roughly a dozen mature broadleaf street trees on Mason Street and replace them with queen palms and new specimen plantings.
Urban Forestry analyst Carla Short told the board that the existing broadleaf trees provide quantifiable ecological benefits that queen palms do not match. "When trees are cut down, they actually release carbon back into the atmosphere," Short said, adding that the existing trees capture stormwater and sequester carbon in ways more valuable to…
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