| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Lawrence Arnstein | Love large canopy trees, ficus included. We need more of these in Santa Monica, not fewer! |
| 2 | Anonymous | please don't cut down the trees. they are so beautiful and I want my daughter to one day see them. They have been part of our community for many, many years. I remember them as a young girl walking from school at St. Monica's to the mall. |
| 3 | Daniel Jansenson | |
| 4 | Lorraine Sanchez | There are many ways to make 2nd and 4th streets more attractive to shoppers:Clean the
sidewalks,Refresh store fronts with better window design and paint, add planters...
Thin out the canopy of some trees if the store owner insists on less tree.
Do 3rd and 4th street have to mimic the promenade? The busineses on these streets appeal to us residents. Does every thing have to
be aimed at increasing tourism and income?
Sincerely, Lorraine Sanchez |
| 5 | Paulette Rochelle-Levy | Save our trees and keep SM cool. |
| 6 | Andrew Everett | |
| 7 | Sonora | |
| 8 | michele modglin | be the green city we say we are and do not destroy or remove any of the trees! |
| 9 | Justin Koppelman | THESE trees are attractive to me as a member of the shopping public. THESE trees tell me that Santa Monica has history and maturity that are lacking in other shopping destinations. THESE trees are what bring me back. THESE trees make the streets of Santa Monica! |
| 10 | Phyllis Chavez | Councilmembers,
Save our trees!! |
| 11 | Meg Hansen | |
| 12 | Luis Suarez | Hello I'm a student at Santa Monica College. I have learned about th tragedy of the commons and i"m shocked this is being considered in a city like Santa Monica. These trees are crucial for the present and future health of humans. |
| 13 | Jethro Singer | Although I believe that the City of Santa Monica should do whatever it takes to attract public business,
it's primary concern should be to enhance the environment for those of us who actually live in this
city. Removing stands of Ficus simply for the purpose of replacing them with the Gingko tress which would take 20 years to mature isn't the answer. |
| 14 | Anonymous | |
| 15 | Rob Shepherd | I find it completely offensive that in a time when global warming is being accelerated by deforestation, that an city is Southern California would even entertain removing large canopy trees like these Ficus. Please leave the trees, they help the environment, help reduce heat in these areas, etc. |
| 16 | Alison Miller | |
| 17 | louise steiner | This deplorable decision to destroy these lovely beneficial trees linging 4th and 2nd Street must be halted. The trees destruction would make a mockery of Santa Monicas claim to be GREEN. |
| 18 | Martin Rubin | Santa Monica mistakes the term green with the greenback dollar too often. |
| 19 | Sofia Gil | |
| 20 | Link Reynolds | Let's look at the consequences and impact that the loss of these trees will have on our future! Be wise and insightful and act now before it's too late! Tourists, communities and residents love these trees and IF santa monica truly wants to be a progressive city, it will not only save as many trees as possible but also plant new additions! with every tree lost, you will add to the destruction of our fragile environment and loose our greatest defense against global warming! the city will require more energy in the summer to make up for the shade lost! don't put us in the hole! be smart about this! |
| 21 | Debra Rawdin Fredricks | Please do not remove these trees. The trees are the lungs of the planet. This is only one of numerous reasons to prevent the City of S.M. from destroying 75 trees. There is no rhyme or reason to this madness. It is the call of a few "designers" and bureaucrats against the wishes of thousands of people who would never consider the destruction of beautiful, healthy trees with over 40 years of growth. Take your $600,000 and plant MORE trees. |
| 22 | Daniela Ryan | What are earth are they thinking!? |
| 23 | Michelle Mehta | I live on 4th street and work on 2nd street. I cannot imagine walking along these streets every day with these large beautiful trees ripped out. I love living in Santa Monica because of the city's progressive stance on environmental issues. So I'm disappointed and surprised that the city would propose this plan that makes little sense and is alienating your environmentally-minded residents. |
| 24 | Flo Ginsburg | Every time we remove the old for something 'new,' we create greater imbalance in our environment. These wonderful old trees not only engender the feeling of protection and strenth, they also provide more oxygen in our City-thin air than would the new trees. |
| 25 | Anonymous | Please inform me in advance if they will be removing the Ficus trees on my block. The affect on property values will warrant my selling the property PRIOR to removal. However, maybe the city of Santa Monica will REDUCE property taxes considering the reduction of value, neighborhood charm and the necessity of more energy spent on cooling and heating my house. |
| 26 | Iva Hladis | |
| 27 | Kate Holt | This is such a destructive and unnecessary plan.
Santa Monica's ficus trees are glorious havens of shade that I, for one, greatly appreciate during regular visits downtown. These mature trees add character and natural beauty to Second and Fourth Streets; to remove them would be criminal. |
| 28 | James Roberton | |
| 29 | Tereza Scharf | to whom it may concern i want to express my outrage with the fact that the most enviromental state in the us is cutting the trees so the businesses get their signs more visible. |
| 30 | Monique Veillette | TRAGEDY! Please reconsider! These trees add such value to the neighborhood. They are so beautiful! taking them out would be tragic and wrong! |
| 31 | Kelli Stam | |
| 32 | nora Perricone | |
| 33 | Anonymous | |
| 34 | Andrew Gledhill | |
| 35 | Andrew Gledhill | Please don't let one of the great treasures of our city be destroyed.
I've read that this plan arose from 'design' concerns - ideas of design change all the time, but once the trees are gone, that's it for our lifetime.
Please don't let it happen.
Andrew Gledhill
US Citizen, Santa Monica resident since 1997. |
| 36 | Susan hartley | |
| 37 | Anonymous | |
| 38 | Karen Rosenhoover | |
| 39 | Lauren Iser | save the trees!!!! |
| 40 | Craig Ferrence | |
| 41 | Maureen Boyle | |
| 42 | susan kim | Save the trees! |
| 43 | Melanie Kroeger | |
| 44 | Tabitha Ji | Please do not abandon Santa Monica's historically laudable, progressive stance on environmental issues. Twenty years of growth and a shady canopy on a hot summer day is a matter to be celebrated, not destroyed. |
| 45 | Jack Neworth | |
| 46 | Anonymous | |
| 47 | Ellen Schmalholz | Is it really necessary to kill perfectly good trees and to spend funds unnecessarily? Give me and the trees a break! |
| 48 | Nathaniel Baldwin | |
| 49 | Anonymous | |
| 50 | reb | DON'T BE FOOLED BY SHORT TERM GAIN.
SANTA MONICA WILL BE WORTH MORE IN THE LONG RUN WITH THE TREES. PLEASE *!* |