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You can't cut down a mature tree on your own property in Palo Alto either. But apparently the city can.

• bootload 17y ago
  Pity the issue of cutting down the trees wasn't seen before it happened. Browsing through the local news it appears PA doesn't see much value in parks, trees "Guest Opinion: A glimpse back at the history of Palo Alto parks-dedication battles", Enid Pearson ("Initiator of the 1965 citizens' initiative that resulted in the City Charter provision on dedicating city parkland") ~ http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/story.php?story_id=11579 http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/story.php?story_id=1157...
• ja30278 17y ago
  I'm sure I'll be in the minority here, but doesn't that seem to stretch the meaning of 'your own property'? I mean, if you can't even cut the trees down, what exactly makes it 'yours'? (aside from the privilege of paying takes on it)
  • Psyonic 17y ago
    "Owning property," at least in the United States, is just a fancy term for describing renting property from the government. The price you pay for the property buys you the contract, property taxes are your rent, and anytime they feel like it they can evict you (eminent domain). And like all landlords, even those as generally hands-off as the government, at the end of the day, they make the rules.
• jacquesm 17y ago
  Someone joked a while ago that they suspect you are tailing the logfiles to see who votes you up, I thought it was rubbish at the time, but after seeing this comment and the number of votes I'm beginning to doubt ;)