Trees

Tree Removal Notification System

Trees are not only beautiful, they are the leading soldiers in the fight against climate change, air pollution, and the urban heat island effect. By safeguarding our urban forest and restoring it as much as possible, we can take a significant amount of carbon and pollution that we’ve thrown up in the atmosphere back out. Imagine the possibilities! But today, hundreds of trees are permitted for removal by our city, and our urban forest is rapidly shrinking.

To ensure transparency and inform the public, the NCSA Trees Committee is making public this Tree Removal Notification System of the city’s proposed tree removals. We hope that this report will capture attention, motivate action, and contribute to a successful conversation on climate and our urban forest.

Tree removals for the City of Los Angeles are listed alphabetically by neighborhood council below, beginning with notices issued after January 1, 2018. Click on the name of your neighborhood council (or community council that is not part of the city's formal neighborhood council system) below to see the addresses of proposed tree removals approved by the Urban Forestry Division. If you do not know your neighborhood council, you can find it online at http://neighborhoodinfo.lacity.org. (Click on the link and enter a street address. The name of the neighborhood council for that address shows up in the lower right.)

The first numbers in these tree removal listings indicate the date of the notice (year, month, day), followed by the address where the tree or trees are located. Click on the listing to see the full notification sheet.

Trees may be cut down within 30 days of the notification date if there is no objection. New tree removal notifications can come out daily. Check often!

We invite you to use this report to act to save trees. And there are alternatives to tree removal! Actions might include:

sending your objection via email to Urban Forestry Division—use this format: OBJECTION TO TREE REMOVAL
reaching out to your neighbor or the business removing the tree(s)
reaching out to your neighborhood council
reaching out to your city councilmember and elected officials
forming a neighborhood tree-watch group
requesting alternatives to removing trees for sidewalk-tree conflict repairs, such as root pruning or meandering sidewalks
hiring a CEQA Attorney, particularly useful in the case of protected trees. There are four classes of protected trees in the City of Los Angeles pursuant to Ordinance No. 177404: Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia), Southern California Black Walnut (Juglans californica var. californica), Western Sycamore (Platanus racemosa), and California Bay (Umbellularia californica)
If you need further help, email us at: trees@ncsa.la

ALL Neighborhood Councils areas listed below -

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Removals added Feb 16 to the following Neighborhood Council sites: Tarzana, Westide, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Westchester Playa

Removal added Feb 13 to: Greater Toluca Lake

Removal added Feb 7 to: Westwood

Removal added Feb 2 to: MacArthur Park, Empowerment Congress Central

Removal added Jan 29 to: Winnetka

Removals added Jan 26 (one is dated in December 2018) to: NoHo, Sylmar, Sherman Oaks, Bel Air-Beverly Crest, Empowerment Congress North

Removals added Jan 20 (all have removals dated in 2019) to: Mid-CityWest, Mar Vista, Del Rey, Westchester, Northridge South

Removals added Jan 14-17 (all have removals dated in 2019) to: Los Feliz, Greater Wilshire, South Robertson, MacArthur Park, Westlake South, South Central, Sherman Oaks

Removals added Jan 12 (all have removals dated in 2018 - we were late getting these) to: Venice, Greater Wilshire, Park Mesa Heights, Harbor Gateway South, Northridge West, Brentwood, Lake Balboa, Arroyo Seco, Van Nuys, Pacoima, Los Feliz, MacArthur Park, Harbor City, Mid City West

Removals added Dec 29 to: Mid-City West, Westwood

Removals added Dec 15 to: Central Alameda, Sherman Oaks, Westchester/Playa

Removals added Dec 9 to: Greater Wilshire, Mid-City West, Mid-City, Lake Balboa, Sherman Oaks, Los Feliz, Park Mesa Heights, Eagle Rock, Harbor Gateway North, Zapata King, NoHo, Northridge West and Pacific Palisades

Removals added Dec 1 to: Los Feliz, Wilshire Center-Koreatown, Encino, Historic Highland Park, Bel Air-Beverly Crest

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Hugh Kenny commented 2018-03-09 22:52:22 -0800

Good work! I am sending it to my Facebook places, liberated from it’s ensconcement in the EmpowerLA newsletter where it gets a little buried. I’ll announce at the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council and the Green Commitee too. You should be proud!