https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/24/this-san-jose-neighborhood-is-in-danger-of-losing-its-shade-trees/

Harrison Street is one of those old Willow Glen enclaves in San Jose, a neighborhood built out as the city grew in the late 1940s and early 1950s and interrupted by railroad tracks. And, like many such streets in the city, one of its distinctive features is the canopy of camphor trees stretching from Fuller Avenue to Harrison’s dead end at the tracks.

But that may not be the case much longer. In early April, the city of San Jose posted removal notices on 15 of the 25 towering trees on Harrison Street, citing the damage to the curbs and gutters and the trees’ potential root loss when the street is repaved this year. But losing the decades-old trees and shade that comes with them is not sitting well with some neighbors who worry the city is sacrificing what makes the street special to improve it.