Jeff Guo
speaker
1,187 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Sep
Jeff Guo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Sarah and Joel start looking into how to remove a hundred foot tall tree from your backyard.
They find out that they need to get approval from the city because in Portland, like in many places, anytime you want to remove a large tree, you have to apply for a permit.
I was like, what?
The city had determined that the leaning tree looked healthy and normal and that removing this tree would significantly affect neighborhood character.
So the city would not let the Bonds cut down their tree.
In recent years, hundreds of towns and cities in America have passed laws to protect trees, to preserve the urban canopy for the good of the neighborhood.
Hello and welcome to Planet Money.
I'm Jeff Guo.
And I'm Amanda Aronchick.
Here in the United States, the general rule is that towns and cities have a lot of power when it comes to land and how people use it.
Towns and cities can pass zoning laws.
They can ban certain types of buildings.
They can even require houses to look a certain way.
Canton is about 40 minutes west of Detroit.
Picture your classic American suburb.
Lawns are neat and tidy.
Streets have names like Cherrywood Lane and Beachwood Drive.
Yeah.
The town flag, which was flying outside Anne Marie's office, has a big green tree on it.
But as Canton, Michigan grew over the decades, as developers put in more strip malls and suburban subdivisions, the town was losing more and more of its trees.
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