rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/petition/save-bpc-trees?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-save-bpc-trees' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Felipe Serra de Oliveira https://actionnetwork.org/users/felipe-serra-de-oliveira/profile https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg BPCA resiliency project is cutting down 500 mature trees — 40% of the project area's canopy. Cutting has already begun. In its May 2026 reply, BPCA confirmed trees are being removed because they sit within the project's "limits of work." But limits of work are design choices, not external constraints — and no reach in the Final Environmental Impact Statement was designed with tree retention as a primary objective. That is the threshold problem. SEQRA requires a "hard look" at alternatives that could reduce significant environmental impacts. On the record, that hard look has not been demonstrated. We are asking BPCA to: 1. Justify each of the 500 removals individually, on the record. 2. Develop a retention-first design alternative for each reach. 3. Submit both for independent review by experts with no financial tie to the design-build contractor. 4. Pause all further removals until the analyses are published. Communities have stopped projects like this before — Sacramento, Ventura, Miami — by pausing cutting until alternatives were studied. Read the full email campaign and the evidence at http://savebpctrees.com https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/save-bpc-trees