To: Mohammed Nuru, Director SF Public Works Departmen and Jane M. Bliss, Master Gardener & Horticultural Consultant
Stop USF from cutting down two healthy Monterey Cypress trees
The University of San Francisco wants to clear the tree buffer of two mature, healthy Monterey Cypress trees at the end of Hemway St. This dead end street could become easy campus access to their open space baseball field. Removing the trees would literally pave the way to development!
Ulrich Field has been evaluated in the past as a potential site for an underground parking structure, with a field or other uses on top.
When USF was looking for a place to put a new residence hall, the 2012 Master Plan concluded: The main benefit that Ulrich Field offers for new development is that it is a large, level site at street level. This however might equally be considered a drawback as the flow of traffic, both by car and foot, would increase in the immediate neighborhood.
Ulrich Baseball Field is also bordered on three sides by residential properties: residences on Hemway and Atalaya Terraces to the south, residences on the east side of Masonic Avenue, and residences on the north side of Golden Gate Avenue. Therefore, in the context of potential impacts on nearby neighbors, the University concluded that this site…would be the least desirable.
That's our neighborhood!
Ulrich Field has been evaluated in the past as a potential site for an underground parking structure, with a field or other uses on top.
When USF was looking for a place to put a new residence hall, the 2012 Master Plan concluded: The main benefit that Ulrich Field offers for new development is that it is a large, level site at street level. This however might equally be considered a drawback as the flow of traffic, both by car and foot, would increase in the immediate neighborhood.
Ulrich Baseball Field is also bordered on three sides by residential properties: residences on Hemway and Atalaya Terraces to the south, residences on the east side of Masonic Avenue, and residences on the north side of Golden Gate Avenue. Therefore, in the context of potential impacts on nearby neighbors, the University concluded that this site…would be the least desirable.
That's our neighborhood!
Why is this important?
There is a public hearing on Monday, Oct. 26th at 5:30, City Hall Room 416. If you can't attend, please sign the petition and let the Director of Public Works know you are opposed. We are outraged that these valued trees may be lost from our urban landscape! These two trees are part of a much longer buffer on the edge of USF and our neighborhood. They block out the ugly USF dormitories and baseball field from our neighborhood and they absorb cheers and the PA system sounds from the stadium. They are Significant Trees, not merely street trees!
Thanks for your help!
Thanks for your help!