Posted on 05/28/2006 9:53:07 AM PDT by ncountylee
Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her mega-millionaire husband, Dick Blum, have a bit of fence mending to do with their soon-to-be neighbors in San Francisco's Gold Coast.
It seems that workers remodeling the Pacific Heights mansion that the couple just bought leveled all the green in the adjoining public garden -- without the city's approval.
And not just any green -- we're talking about a Tivoli-style garden just off the front entrance of the couple's $16.5 million abode, which sits at the foot of Vallejo Street, between the Presidio and some of the city's most posh residences.
The garden is actually part of the city-owned Lyon Street steps -- a favorite of joggers, walkers and tourists looking for a picture-postcard view, and even for teenagers looking to sneak a late-night drink or two.
steps' proximity to the house is a bit of a landscape oddity, and even some Feinstein friends questioned the couple's decision to buy the property.
But the real oddity came two weeks ago when, without warning, a landscaping crew showed up and ripped out the garden -- plants, hedges and all. When they were done, nothing remained but the dirt.
Even city officials were caught off guard.
"Any removal of plant material in a public right-of-way needs to be run through us for approval, and that wasn't done in this case,'' said Paul Sacamano, head of the Public Works Department's urban forestry division.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
My favorite part was the notion that Blum and her are married. Uhm yeah. On paper they are and that's about as far as that goes.
Here is what happened in Seattle in such a case:
Judge pays off $618,000 for cutting park's trees(9th circuit)
Sorry, Richard Blum.
AND impact on global warming.
Don't forget the dotted snail darter, and the hairy red legg frog.
Can some enterprising freeper dump a jumping mouse carcase on the property....?
Thanks. I'll start digging around. From your experience, is this something that Google is also censoring?
Let's have some mixed use housing in that area and move a few of SanFran's urban outdoorsmen into the park.
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That's a great idea! Maybe some SanFran Freepers can rent a van and move some in there.
limousine liberal FYI
There is something so very Marie Antoinette, 'let them eat cake'-ish about this situation. She clear-cuts a public garden and her response is "or bother, now I'll have to replace the sprinkler system". That is just plain weird.
If you go to www.dogpile.com. it tells you at the top of the page that Dogpile is a combination of Google, Yahoo, Ask, and MSN. You're still using Google if you use Dogpile.
NO, but I no longer trust Google. Blum was tight with Ron Brown and the Lippo Group also.
liberal hypocrite bump
I can't help there. I've been using Dogpile too until I realized it accessed Google.
Just using Google's search engine doesn't make them any money. You'd have to click on one of the links that appears on the right - the Sponsored Links - for Google to make any money off you using it.
So go ahead and search there to your heart's content.
Rules only apply to conservatives.
The link has before and today pictures.
She acts like the PUBLIC garden is hers..."oh it will look beautiful when we're done with it, have patience" Crap....it's a CITY OWNED GARDEN!!! Make her PAy to put it back EXACTLY like it was!!
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