Maples Tree Removal CDP

The applicant described buying the burned home next to his daughter, rebuilding it all-electric with solar, and said the trees threaten the house and shade his panels — of 54 redwoods on the parcel, he only wants eight gone.

A forester with Homer & Associates who argued tree five doesn't meet the 60-inch/pre-1800 test, isn't ESHA, isn't a mapped scenic resource, and asked the commission to drop the retention condition.

Holman said the landowners were blindsided by the new conditions and are spending money without profit — just making their property fire-safe.

Called in again to caution that the moratorium isn't approved yet, noting the fifth-district supervisor seat changing hands could be the swing vote, and argued landowners can use their own trees without barter or trade.