Forms for Tree Planting and Replacement Trees

FUF Letter of Agreement (and Planter Information Sheet)

DPW Tree Planting Application Form

If you would like to participate in a FUF planting, please, click on the above links, and print and and fill out both forms. (These links open .pdf files, and require that you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer.) If you would prefer to have the forms mailed or faxed to you, please email us or call (415) 561-6890 x103.

Please give your completed and signed forms to your volunteer Neighborhood Organizer. If there is no organizer in your area, then please mail the forms directly to:

Friends of the Urban Forest
P.O. Box 29456
San Francisco, CA 94129-0456

BAYVIEW - FREE SIDEWALK TREES
Through Friends of the Urban Forest

Next Planting September. Deadline for forms August 1, 2008!

Currently, funding is available to plant street trees in the Bayview, at no cost to property owners. Just fill out the same two forms and mail them in to FUF, the DPW Tree Planting Application and the FUF Letter of Agreement. The form links are found to the left on this page. New trees or replacement trees are both eligible.

If you were to do this all on your own the cost would be about $325 - if you plant through FUF the trees are FREE!

• Choose a tree from our TREE PLANTING page under
  "Gallery of Urban Trees".
• Fill out 2 forms and send them to us
• Come to the Commuity Meeting to have your questions answered, choose a tree type if you haven't already, and get directions on how to mark your sidewalk to tell us where you want your tree to go.
• After we've cut the sidewalk and planted the tree, water your tree weekly.

Bayview Tree Planting

Friends of the Urban Forest will plant trees in these San Francisco neighborhoods when as few as a dozen tree applications have been approved. Next Planting September. Deadline for forms August 1, 2008.

We do not plant trees in backyards. Front yards close to sidewalks can be considered.

A neighborhood meeting will be held a few weeks before the planting to explain the process or answer any remaining questions you have. Our plantings generally happen 9 a.m. Saturday mornings, and are group efforts that involve the neighborhood residents themselves, and FUF volunteers and staff. We are usually finished by noon.

If you are interested in planting a free street tree through FUF:

1. Call Suzanne at (415) 561-6890, extension 101 -- or complete the form online on our Sign Up to Plant page. We will let you know when your neighborhood is being planted next (please leave your full name, tree address, mailing address if different, and phone number).

OR

2. You can download, complete, and mail the FUF Letter of Agreement and the DPW Tree Planting Application forms available on the left.



Tree Replacement Program

If you have an empty basin, replacement trees are available through our program.

If you need to remove a tree:

1) Get a city permit to remove the tree. The City states that a permit is required before any tree – alive, dead or hazardous – can be removed. Mail the removal permit into DPW - not into FUF!
http://www.sfgov.org/site/sfdpw_index.asp?id=33096

2) Have the tree and stump removed. Here is a list of arborists we refer for the work: http://www.fuf.net/tree_care/aborist_referrals.html

Print out and complete the FUF Letter of Agreement and the DPW Tree Planting Application forms available on the left side of this page.

Mail the completed forms to

FUF
ATTN: REPLACEMENT PLANTING
PO Box 29456
San Francisco CA 94129

The replacement includes the tree, the stakes and ties, volunteers to help plant the tree, and 2 follow up visits in the first 18 months.

Once we have the forms in hand, we will contact you about the logistics of planting. We do replacement plantings every couple of months.