Yes, if you are a multigenerational real estate developer worth hundreds of millions of dollars already. For example Boyd Smith and Lund Smith, at the corner of university and Middlefield.. want to build 63 units of housing within 40 feet of a heritage oak tree which we the people stipulate should be protected better. (last time I looked there was a formula where they measured the diameter of the tree and projected out).

Palo Alto Forward which I used to call Palo Alto For War meaning “class war” — the billionaires versus the rest of us— approves of the project.

I am cynical enough to believe that people who claim they are pro housing are actually pro developer.

And anti-tree.