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Commission upholds staff in denying removal of coast redwood at 1145 Carver Place
Summary
The Mountain View Parks and Recreation Commission voted to deny a homeowner’s appeal to remove a heritage coast redwood at 1145 Carver Place, siding with staff that the tree’s condition and available mitigations do not meet removal criteria. The appellant pressed solar access and repeated driveway damage as reasons for removal.
The Mountain View Parks and Recreation Commission on April 8 upheld staff’s decision to deny removal of a heritage coast redwood at 1145 Carver Place, rejecting an appeal from the property owner.
Russell Hanson, the city’s urban forest manager, told the commission the tree is a “large sequoia sempervirens, coast redwood, approximately 47 inches in diameter, 90 feet tall, and has about 20 feet of crown spread,” and said staff’s field assessment found the tree in only marginally thin condition but not hazardous. “We didn’t feel that the condition raised to that point where it required removal,” Hanson said, describing pruning and other mitigations as feasible.
The appellant,…
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