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# Pleading against the ‘tree-o-side’
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/pleading-against-the-tree-o-side-editor/
- Published: 2007-07-03T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T02:12:43.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Phyllis Chavez*

What exactly do we have to do to stop the “tree-o-side” planned for Second and Fourth streets in Santa Monica? I thought we were a city committed to being green and the environment, and yet we are talking about cutting down mature trees because they block signage and they are messy.

I found, on a recent trip to Fourth Street, that the signs are visible as a pedestrian and to car traffic. The wonderful, welcome shade and the reduced temperature they provided was bliss. I found no tree debris, just man-made debris.

We need the trees. We need their shade. We need their majestic beauty. We need the cleaner air that the trees help to provide.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 3, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/070307.pdf?ref=smdp.com)