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San Francisco homeowner fined $50K for trimming street trees

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 02, 2026
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Paul Dennes (ABC7 San Francisco)

Paul Dennes got an email from his insurance broker: trim the trees near your San Francisco home, or you won’t qualify for coverage. He trimmed them. Then the city hit him with a $50,000 fine, according to ABC7.

The five trees in front of Dennes’s Panhandle neighborhood unit look like his trees — they’re planted in the side…

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