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sewer replacement and ongoing sewer reaming. It has now come to the point that I need to pay a company to come and do a trenchless sewer line repiacement to fix this problem. The cheapest estimate that I could get for t}-~is is $5000. IInfair lcconomic Burden Of course the city planners are nowhere around when all of above problems and costs are being incurred. They don't know the property; they don't know what it's like to live there in a storm, they don't deal with the dangers these trees cause; they aren't there when the sewer stops working because of massive root invasion; ihey~ don't have to deal with my irate neighbors; they don't pay the cleanup costs; they don't pay the ongoing arborist fees; they don`t suffer the economic hardships or any of the other hardships that these trees cause. But They are there when they want to tell me what I can or can`t do with these trees. L~ effect, this is a taking, "an action by a government depriving a person of private property without the payment of just compensation." Either the city needs to pony up and start paying for alI the costs and liabilities caused by designating these trees as historic landmarks or they need to repeal this unjust, unequally applied, baseless and unreasonable constraint. They can't have it both ways. Summary staterrient I am a responsible homeowner and community member. I want to be able to live in peace and safety. I have spent an inordinate amount of time and money on maintaining the redwood trees and their effects to my property. It should be my prerogative whether to remove some of these trees or not_ It should not be a decision made by some irrational, binding mandate made years ago, or by people today that do not share the burdens, dangers and costs that I do: As theproperty owner, I should be able to decide what to do with the plants on my property, especially if they are causing problems or are not economically viable. Even wiRh good stewardship, these trees are dangerous. Historically, the owners of my property were wealthy land owners who lived in San Francisco and only came out to my property as a place to escape the city on summer weekends. They did not live at the property year round to have to-deal with trees that had grown too long in the wrong places. I request that ;the Library II'istoric commission delist these trees as historic landmarks considering their inappropriate status as historic trees as well as the numerous liabilities listed above. Sincerely, h~iike Rogala