The Seventh Street Tree Cutting Stand-Off of 2000-01
The "Seventh Street" folder on this site (folder number 2.15 to the left) now contains four source documents on the December, 2000-January, 2001 stand-off between city officials and Davis residents over cutting Seventh Street street trees
On Monday, December 4, 2000, contract tree-cutters arrived on
Seventh Street between B and C with the purpose of cutting down eleven
trees, most of them on the south side of Seventh Street between B and C
streets. Neighbors mobilized and the result was a stand-off in which,
as of this publication in December, 2007, the trees have never been
cut. The pdf file in folder 2.15, to the left on this page, consists of
the Davis Enterprise story of December 6, 2000 reporting Monday's
stand-off, a December 24, 2000 op ed on PG&E policies threatening
Davis street trees, a January 8, 2001 letter to the Enterprise
proposing actions for a Street Tree Commission meeting on January 8,
and, finally, the January 19, 2001 Enterprise report of the Commission
meeting in which a crowd of "Davisites Show Passion for Trees."