<div>We need your help after the City of Santa Rosa granted a permit to cut down a beautiful, 70-foot Redwood Tree known by neighbors as <strong>Rosie the Redwood</strong>.
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<div><strong>NEW APPEAL DATE: </strong> Rosie's appeal to the Planning Commission will be heard on <strong>OCTOBER 8, 2026.</strong> The meeting starts at 4:30 pm and  we encourage ALL FRIENDS OF ROSIE supporters to attend.   Anyone can speak for up to 3 min on why they want the city to preserve Rosie and build a walkway around her.  PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!  
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<div>If you absolutely cannot attend, please send an email to PlanningCommission (at) SRCity (dot) ORG, with a cc: to 
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<div>TM (at) RedwoodAge (dot) com.  THANK YOU!
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<div>UPDATE 7-22-26: PG&amp;E says it will ask its engineering team to see if they can re-route wires around Rosie. This is a great relief. The company marked Rosie with an X for removal last week, but now says it will hold off a final decision until after the city appeal process is completed. In any case, they say it would be many, many months before any action is take against here. We need to monitor this carefully while working with PG&amp;E, but for now, this is very good news!
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<div>PLEASE CONTINUE TO HELP BY SENDING YOUR EMAIL COMMENTS to local officials who can still affect this. We will be appealing to the Planning Commission this week, and we want to ensure City Councilwoman Victoria Fleming knows how upset people are by this. GoFundMe won't let us post their addresses, but you can figure it out:
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<div>Planning Commission at SRCity (dot) org
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<div>VFleming at SRCity (dot) org
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<div>cc: <a href="https://RedwoodAge.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TM (at) RedwoodAge (dot) com</a>
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<div>By sending your email to <a href="https://RedwoodAge.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TM@RedwoodAge.com</a>, we will add you to our email list to keep you in touch through periodic updates.
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<div>Keep those comments coming!!
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<div>--Rosie's story continues below--
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<div>Rosie is healthy and stable. She's popular with neighbors -- from kids to seniors, who've watcher her grow for decades. They visit Rosie while walking through the McDonald Historic District of Santa Rosa, Calif.
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<div>Rosie lives on 13th St. (between McDonald and Spring). She cracked through the sidewalk that someone (foolishly) built over her roots long ago. Now, new landlords from out of town want to cut Rosie down rather than build a sidewalk around her. The City has granted them a permit, and we want to appeal. But it's costly do appeal.
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<div>Everyone agrees the sidewalk needs to be repaired, but we're asking that the new walkway go around the tree. There is plenty of room for this. The city often extends the curb out into the street to protect redwoods and other purposes. And the city's own tree ordinance says the city should protect trees like Rosie when possible.
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<div>The Press-Democrat ran a story about this: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/RosiePD" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/RosiePD" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://tinyurl.com/RosiePD</a></a>
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<div>And KRON-TV has also done a story: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/RosieKRON" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/RosieKRON" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://tinyurl.com/RosieKRON</a></a>
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<div>We've gathered 109 signatures from neighbors. Of the people we contacted, 95 percent say they want to save this beautiful tree. Dozens of other residents have written directly to the city, asking to save the tree.
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<div>An appeal to the Planning Commission costs about $850. An appeal to the City Council would cost another $850. And we'd like to have a study by an independent arborist to evaluate the tree. We're trying to raise $3,000. (Any extra funds will be donated to the city's parks.)
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<div><strong>Please donate what you can to help us reach our goal of $3,000. </strong>
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<div><strong>Our ability to save Rosie the Redwood depends on it.</strong>
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