Thanks to a ballot proposition passed in 2017, San Francisco might be liable in many cases
During the recent storms, I had a neighbor’s tree fall onto my roof and part of it came into the bedroom where my son was sleeping. Thank God my son suffered only minor physical injuries, which required only an ER visit and a sling, but now he is afraid to sleep alone and has been having nightmares. The tree is out by the sidewalk. I know it’s not on my property because of where it is located on his side of the fence.
The City has prioritized pruning trees based on safety considerations, to correct structural flaws and to gain necessary clearances for overhead wires, traffic signs and signals, adjacent buildings, and traffic flow. If you are in San Francisco, the tree-trimming around the sign — if it occurred since July 1, 2017 — might have been part of the StreetTreeSF priority trimming program.
Here, as the tree had been trimmed previously by The City, a suggestion of knowledge is raised as city workers would have been physically present, examined and evaluated the tree, and trimmed it. If the hazard or rot was in existence at that time, and The City did not remedy it, liability might attach.
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