Down Trees

[Arman]

With the recent Santa Ana winds, esp overnight it seems, a number of trees along the main roads (eg Portola, Sand Canyon) are down. Is it the City's responsibility or each associations' responsibility to replace/replant these trees? I'm not taking about areas within a community, but along the main roads specifically, but which abut an association. Or is this question area-dependent (ie one median may be association property, and another may be the responsibility of the city)? How to find out?

 

[irvinehomeowner]

Sounds like City to me.

Anything on main public roads/property usually is their responsibility.

 

[socal78]

On the bright side, the fallen trees have caused $1M worth of improvements to Santa Ana.

 

[iacrenter]

With the recent Santa Ana winds, esp overnight it seems, a number of trees along the main roads (eg Portola, Sand Canyon) are down. Is it the City's responsibility or each associations' responsibility to replace/replant these trees? I'm not taking about areas within a community, but along the main roads specifically, but which abut an association. Or is this question area-dependent (ie one median may be association property, and another may be the responsibility of the city)? How to find out?

On the east coast when we had severe storms / hurricanes, the neighborhood residents typically got together and cut these up with chainsaws and got them out of the road (to make the roads passable).  Given the city was typically worried about bigger issues (power outages and such), this worked...

If the typical Irvinite is as handy with a chain saw as I am, we better open a trauma hospital in the city right away.

 

[iacrenter]

True, irvine doesn't seem to have enough DiY folks that could do that kind of thing themselves.

If things were bad enough (major outage of services for several days), I could see residents taking things into their own hands.