Oakland (City Council votes for full $915,000) fine for landowner who cut down 38 mature trees

(Property owner) Bernard previously told the Chronicle that he paid $175,000 in cash for the 12,000-square-foot property in 2019, and estimates that it is worth close to $250,000 now.

Compared to the $919K fine? Ouch.

They won't come close to paying off the lien if they sell the lot.

Also we gave over a million dollars to OPD for dodgy Palantir and Israeli survailance tech in no-bid contracts.

Crazy to see the city fine a man the full amount for removing trees on his own property. He should’ve been able to get a survey and deduct the fines from the trees he would’ve been allowed to remove. Sounds like they need new guidelines.

All this talk of urban forests (an obvious oxymoron) is redundant. If the city wanted forests, they’d be buying land to turn into parks and restricting development. Oakland’s already sprawled into the hills.