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When John and his wife bought their Hollywood home it came with a sea grape tree now this thing goes up now a massive sea grape tree that splits into four big trunks it's a beautiful tree it's a gorgeous tree except over the past 50 years the tree has grown too large for John's yard it's risky, and it's too big for the area that it has grown into the roots from the sea grape have already buckled the sidewalk in front of his home John in the city of Hollywood split the cost of the new sidewalk now the roots are going the other way into rising up under John's house and this thing is working its way over here it's cracked this concrete wall here where the planter box is, and it's working its way into the base of the house even more dangerous the tree can't be cut back anymore the branches hang over his house and when the wind blows the four tree trunks start moving and those trunks just move five to six inches in the wind, and they just creak and crack meaning that the tree could come down and up in a hurricane John talked to an arborist who told him in his opinion the tree was a danger to his house my author said that he would recommend taking the tree down John is willing to pay the 2200 hours to cut the tree down and the thousand dollars to replace it with four palm trees as the city would require, so we asked Hollywood for a permit and their arborist reviewed it than he waited finally I called back up again couldn't talk to the August but the person that the death said the other said the tree can't come down John says forget the experts just use common sense looks at it, and you say that the tree is too big for the yard that it's in and the proximity to the house is too close and the tree needs to come down John is convinced that the city won't let him take the tree down the next hurricane will do it if this tree comes over those 18-inch branches are going to come into my house they're going to take the house down well Howard John's arborist says yes the trees should come down the city's arborist said no it should not what can a homeowner do first get your arborist to write a report giving their professional opinion why the tree is damaged and according to the city's rules why it can and should be removed if the city refuses to accept that you can appeal it to the Department of Planning and Development Services and if they don't let you take it down take them to court and let a judge decide I contacted the city of Hollywood a spokesperson told me they try to save as many trees as possible but if John hired a certified arborist who was convinced the tree needed to come down they would reconsider his request and John hired him the arborist wrote that the sea grape tree had several large decay columns that there is significant damage around the tree and there were structural defects the city of Hollywood got the report then gave John the permit to remove the tree it didn't take the tree cutters long to remove the sea grape tree no one wanted to...