There’s an enormous, dying ailanthus (“weed tree”) growing a couple of doors down from me. It has dropped two giant limbs on my yard in the last few years, mashing fences and plants. What I’m now really afraid of is that the next branch may mash me, or worse, my 18-month-old daughter. <\/p>\n
The tree is on the property line between my next door neighbor (who also wants it down) and the back of a commercial property facing on the avenue. As far as I can tell, it’s on the commercial side, but we’re on a hill, and it’s literally growing out of the retaining wall of my neighbor’s property (on the other side of her fence). <\/p>\n
I mention all this because my neighbor, who is quite elderly and fairly decrepit, claims she sued the owner of the commercial property a number of years ago to remove the tree, but lost. He claimed it was her tree. <\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s an enormous, dying ailanthus (“weed tree”) growing a couple of doors down from me. It has dropped two giant limbs on my yard in the last few years, mashing fences and plants. What I’m now really afraid of is that the next branch may mash me, or worse, my 18-month-old daughter. The tree is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-32067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/05\/dangerous-giant\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Dangerous Giant Tree Removal","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/05\/dangerous-giant\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/05\/dangerous-giant\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Garden","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"penandink"}],"creator":["penandink"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-05-20T15:29:24Z","datePublished":"2009-05-20T15:29:24Z","dateModified":"2009-05-20T15:38:47Z"},"rendered":"