Dear editor,
Good day and greetings. First, we the citizens are grateful to have some green scenery and flowers in our city. Trees produce oxygen and clean the air around us. But we are concerned about the potential danger, especially in the rainy seasons, of loose branches falling off and damaging our cars that we need to transport ourselves and our children to school.
Without our jobs, there would be no revenue for the city or ourselves. Right?
The intersection of concern is Washington Boulevard and Mildred Avenue, proceeding south toward Maxella Avenue, and wherever else such potential danger exists.
Last fall, I witnessed these large ficus (or whatever they are named) trees fall apart during heavy rain and wind, and destroy personal and real property, especially on Centinela Avenue, just north of Venice Boulevard.
I saw a car under one of those sidewalk planted trees that sustained costly damages, and if a pedestrian happened to be under that tree when the large branch fell, a family may have had an untimely funeral and/or medical expenses on their hands.
We want to avoid that situation. We respectfully demand that these overgrown sidewalk-planted trees be trimmed so that the street lights can be visible (a safety issue) and to reduce the possibility of personal and real property damage.
In addition, residents were promised that these trees, planted by the city, were to be maintained on a regular schedule and we have documentation to back that up.
We witnessed school buses, fire trucks and other large trucks go by and make contact with these trees, and break off branches, which scratched windshields and the tops of our cars.
Even the fire trucks sometimes need to slow down momentarily to avoid damage to themselves.
Thank you for your service.
Robert Clato,
Culver City
