If it's a tonewood tree, now we know the real reason Jake wanted to cut it down. :)
More like the tree was in an area zoned for parking. You can bet your bottom dollar she's all over this with regards to the city denying us the permit to chop it down in the first place.
I argued, amongst other things, that it was a danger due to how it tends to drop limbs if you look at it funny. I provided documentation of previous incidents.
Thanks to Jake I am now aware of a creature called "arborist". :P My neighbour has a giant tree (dont know what, maybe a poplar) that drops limbs. So far no people (or cars!) are hurt, but maybe I'll have to call autorities and ask what can be done with this leafy behemoth.
Yep, the left tree that didn't fall is a Silver Maple. The one on the right that fell is a Tree of Heaven ( a weed that turns into a shifty large weak tree on account of insane growth rate; not even good enough for a tone wood). It produces a stupid amount of seed clusters and spreads voraciously. There's a neighbor with 3 that I warned to remove and now are little trees, but no more than 3-5 years old. Another neighbor has 2 older daughters of my bitch.
I thought Jake's description of his neighbor's trees as "daughters of my bitch" was better.