
The Sun has announced the City has reached a settlement with Rocky Gentner, a resident on the Hill who last year cut down 153 Brazilian pepper trees behind in his house in Gum Grove Park.
At the time Gentner told the OC Register, in a brief phone interview, “they weren’t trees, they were bushes and they were dead,” a fact disputed by an arborist who had recently looked at the trees.
photo courtesy OC Register
- Seal Beach man settles lawsuit over removal of 53 trees (Press-Telegram, July 21, 217)