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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The large trees are great, but eventually they do get unhealthy and can come down.

If they plant lots of trees to replace it, no big deal. [/quote]

The reaction on Nextdoor is not to taking down diseased trees.  It's to developers cutting down healthy heritage trees as a routine part of doing business and not blinking at the fines because it's just assumed it will be paid on every project.  There was a whole article in the Post, emergency legislation passed, etc.  None of this is about diseased trees.[/quote]

Trees are really important for urban livability.[/quote]
Tree preservation is a pretext for racist NIMBYs to prevent construction of affordable housing. [/quote]

That's bullshit.  A lot of DC's trees are in low-income areas.  Cutting down trees isn't giving us affordable housing.[/quote]
Developers are cutting down the trees so that they can build higher density housing. Higher density housing is needed to ensure that housing is affordable. People that don’t want higher density housing in their neighborhood don’t want affordable housing in their neighborhood. It’s racism and classism masquerading as environmentalism. [/quote]

No, it’s developers cutting down trees on SFH and rowhouse lots so they can build expanded SFHs that they flip for $2-3m. It really has nothing to do with more density. It’s all about trying to build 5K sq foot McMansions in urban areas.

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