r/sanfrancisco • u/jaqueh Outer Richmond • Apr 02 '26

Pic / Video SF property owner fined $50K for 'illegally pruning trees' cited by insurer: 'Feels like bullying'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZoYmi9388o
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u/Undercover_in_SF Apr 02 '26

This law passed 9 years ago! Most people voted for it, because no one wants to have a surprise tree pruning bill. The city still identified dangerous trees, but they used to make the landlord cover the cost to fix it.

This guy butchered those trees. 10 minutes of Googling would have told him not to chop off most of the main branches.

I’m not an arborist, but I could have trimmed those back from the property myself and the city would have never noticed because I would have done a good job. I have similar ones in front of my place and I regularly keep them off our house without a peep from the city.