With over 500 members and distinguished guests in attendance, this signature event served as the Chamber’s annual Board of Directors installation and membership appreciation celebration. In the meantime, only residents heartsick over the loss of the ficus trees with be throwing shade on Robertson Boulevard.The Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce produced Beverly Hills’ largest networking event of the year, the Summer Garden Party presented by Torrey Pines Bank and Greater LA Realtors on Wednesday, June 29, 2022. So officials will have ample time to look for street trees that are good for the sidewalks, for humans and for the environment. The city will do a yearlong project replacing sidewalks and curb ramps and installing an irrigation system before replanting. Otherwise, a single invasive insect or disease that attacks one species could deforest the entire street. Other possibilities are the “Bubba” desert willow and “Red Push” pistache, says Janet Hartin, an environmental horticulture advisor with the UC Cooperative Extension in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.īoth Hartin and Vejar advise planting a mix of replacement trees. Species such as African sumac, bottlebrush, mesquite and certain acacias could be good candidates and have roots that generally don’t damage sidewalks, according to Bryan Vejar, the community forestry foreman for Tree People, an environmental advocacy organization. If the city can start from scratch on Robertson, then why not invest in trees that offer plentiful shade without overpowering the sidewalks? And though crape myrtle is resilient in hot and dry weather, fits nicely on the sidewalks and doesn’t have aggressive roots, it is little more than a large shrub.Īnd even the city’s own Urban Forest Management Plan recommends that existing palms that don’t have historic significance or generate economic value through tourism “should be assessed and selected for strategic removal and replacement with a service-providing shade tree.” Did anyone at City Hall read that document before agreeing to plant more palms? Palms are a defining feature of the Beverly Hills landscape, but they don’t cast much of a shadow. Opinion L.A.’s asphalt-covered schoolyards are an environmental injusticeĬhildren shouldn’t be forced to learn and play in hot, asphalt-covered, fenced-in campuses, especially in neighborhoods that already lack park space. About half of the 87 trees scheduled for removal on Robertson Boulevard between Clifton Way and Whitworth Drive have already come down, but it’s not too late to save some - and to rethink replacing those already cut down with such poor shade producers. Klenk started a petition protesting the tree removal and has lobbied city officials to stop until the City Council can reevaluate the plan. Right, but can’t the city consider leaving the ones that haven’t damaged the sidewalks, at least for now? Sterling said some sidewalks have minimal damage but he knows from experience that the trees can do more damage. Klenk says the sidewalks around the trees - or where they had been - on her block were in good shape. Property owners on another block of Robertson Boulevard think the trees are a menace and wrote a letter in 2019 to the city’s urban forest manager asking that they be removed.īut do they all need to be cut down? Not all of the trees slated for removal have destroyed the sidewalks. Not everyone loves the ficus like Klenk does.
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