Study: full-grown trees bring money to city businesses

Ficus trees belong in the middle of a park, not on the sidewalk with the trunk a few feet from building frontage. The canopies become deformed no matter how you trim them since there is nowhere to grow. I have seen people slip and fall on the sidewalks raised many inches by the roots of Ficus trees on Colorado. The roots are invasive of the sewers and ruin those also without expensive clean out. Pasadena used to be an orange grove. Should they have built the streets, houses and buildings in meandering patterns around the orange trees? No, they cut the trees and built a city. Trees should continue to complement the city, not the other way around. There are plenty of other trees that are suited to these areas, ficus are not.

Yes, the city is all-knowing when it comes to trees. Businesses complain, and trees go. If I had a ficus tree in front of my house, do you think the city would ever remove it due to my complaints of sidewalk damage and sewer repairs? Hell no! I'd get slapped with a sidewalk repair bill next time I took out a permit, and get told that the sewer is my responsibility up to the main line. About the ficus trees, they may or may not be appropriate in their current locations, I understand the reasoning, Anonymous. So tell my why the oak trees on the east side of Allen street between Walnut and Locust were removed? Heaven forbid you remove an oak tree in this city... haven't checked the ordinances lately, but it probably carries jail time these days.