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Save the Trees on Amherst & Gorham

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Sheri A Saperstein
10 years ago

Common-sense dictates this to be unnecessary and counter-productive. I certainly agree with the neighbor who suggests fixing potholes with the money instead.

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Pamela Cornwell
10 years ago

It's ridiculous to cut down these trees, and, there is NO way of widening Amherst. The City would have to remove the sidewalks (!) for the street to become any wider. Traffic is low and there have been no accidents here, to my knowledge. My husband and I have lived on Montana near Amherst for 30 years, and I have enjoyed walking the block going south on Amherst and then west on Gorham.

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Tamara Scott Tabak
10 years ago

There is no reason to remove trees that are not on a street needing to be widened. Please reconsider the permit allowing their removal, a totally unnecessary action.

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Philip Harris
10 years ago

Widen an already wide street? What for? A driveway? This is a disgrace.

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mark bee
10 years ago

leave the trees alone. no need to widen a street for a half a block, which annoys many and helps very few. use your collective heads and realize that if it ain't broke, don't try to fix it! if you have money to burn, fix the potholes in the neighborhood and plant more shade tree.

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Sassan Ohebsion
10 years ago

I ask the city officials to kindly listed to the people who live on these blocks and walk them everyday. There is ABSOLUTELY nothing to be gained from widening 1/2 block of Amherst. This street is quiet and free of traffic. Even if it had traffic (it clearly does not), it would be impossible to widen the rest of the street, as the surrounding blocks are already fully developed. Please let commonsense prevail and save our beautiful trees. Please don't destroy our streets' identity.

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Cara
10 years ago

Why do I have to waste my time dealing with people with no brains and moral ethics! Why don't you cut your own toes off- if you like cutting things off so much.

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N LEVAN
10 years ago

Please keep the tree!

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Linda Schwab
10 years ago

Please do what you can to save these trees!

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Linda I Schwarz
10 years ago

To remove a Canphor tree is outrageous. These trees are treasures.....often older than we are, and amazingly strong!

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Judith Pacht
10 years ago

SAVE the mature trees!!!

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anne ward
10 years ago

Please help us to save these trees which add charm, beauty and shade to our neighborhood. They help to lessen the impact of overly scaled projects and development.

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Don Cornwell
10 years ago

I live 3 buildings away on Montana. This is one of the Bureau's dumbest ideas in decades, along with the stop sign on Bundy. There is no conceivable way that Amherst could be widened. The street is already within 10 feet of the walls of many houses. Meanwhile the Bureau sits backs and ignores huge new developments going in all around Olympic that are absolutely guaranteed to generate total traffic gridlock, which we were already dangerously close to.

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Cynthia Perez-Brown
10 years ago

Barely any traffic on this street. This is seriously damaging any credibility that we have in our City government.

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bobbi feinstein
10 years ago

Please do not destroy these beauties of nature that provide shade and beauty to our community.

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Nancy Jacobsen
10 years ago Featured

One of the beauties and joys of otherwise overbuilt and densely populated South Brentwood is the abundance and variety of mature trees. They must never be sacrificed, especially when there is absolutely no need.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

please do not remove these trees!

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Laurel Davidson
10 years ago

lt is so sad to see the disregard gov.t has for mature trees. They are magnificent and should be preserved.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Save the trees!

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Kenneth Marks
10 years ago

Residents lose again. Why do you have to remove trees when it is clearly NOT necessary. Is there no one in the City of Los Angeles capable of exercising judgment? Apparently not. This is another example that demonstrates just how broken the City is. C'mon people...think.