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School Board to Tour Oak Grove, Maintenance Warehouse
A Glen Oaks resident is complaining that the district's oak trees block his view and clog his storm drains.
The Millbrae School District Board of Trustees will tour a district-owned oak grove on Saturday that a neighbor says is obstructing his view and clogging his rain gutters.
Superintendent Linda Luna on Monday toured the district property located near Glen Oaks Montessori School and met with resident John Behlmer, who complained the oak trees block his patio view and tree debris falls into his storm drains.
It would be very costly to top off the trees, Luna said during .
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Behlmer and other neighbors have complained about the trees in the past, she said; the trees haven’t been topped since 2000.
Board members didn’t seem to have a whole lot of sympathy for problems caused by the trees. “It’s just a fact of life,” said Trustee Marjory Luxenberg. “There’s nothing you can do. Trees grow. You have no entitlement to that.”
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Trustee Frank Barbaro said the district needs to maintain its trees.
Luna said she would bring back some options and cost estimates to the board.
In a special meeting beginning at noon Saturday, the trustees will tour the district’s maintenance warehouse at 701 Laurel Ave. and afterwards check out the Glen Oaks property at 727 Santa Margarita Ave.
