Context:

Prop. E was a measure on the November 8, 2016 San Francisco ballot regarding responsibility for maintaining street trees and surrounding sidewalks. Voters were asked if the City should amend the City Charter to transfer responsibility from property owners to the City for maintaining trees on sidewalks adjacent to their property, as well for repairing sidewalks damaged by the trees. Prop E passed with almost 80% of the voters’ support. As part of this proposition, a SF tree census was conducted by SF Public Works.

Content:

18 columns of data includes address (including lat/longs), caretaker details, legal details, size of plot, time of planting, surrounding site context, and species.

Acknowledgements:

This data was collected by SF Public Works. You can use Kernels to analyze, share, and discuss this data on Kaggle, but if you’re looking for real-time updates and bigger data, check out the data on BigQuery, too.

Inspiration:

• SF is notorious for it’s microclimates--can you identify zones from particular trees that thrive there?
• Combine this data with the NYC Tree Census--which species are most common? least?