Trees grow on Loma Drive, again, after being cut down
by Kevin Cody In early August, retired Los Angeles Police Officer Bill Hallett returned to his home on Loma Drive in Hermosa Beach to discover the three, large New Zealand Christmas trees in front of his next door neighbor’s house had been cut down. The trees were in the city parkway. But the city didn’t cut down the trees. And the next door neighbor didn’t cut down the trees. A neighbor across the street did, without the city’s or nextdoor neighbor’s permission. “When you go to a cemetery, you can always tell where there was a recent burial. About six feet of dirt is piled above the ground. That is what the southwest corner of 10th Street and Loma Avenue looks like right now,” Hallett told the City Council at its August 13 council meeting. “Those trees were a mecca to hummingbirds, and sparrows, and home to squirrels. They belonged to everybody in the city for people to enjoy. There were two hummingbird nests in the trees when I left town for a week. They went into the chipper.” “Our city is becoming Cement City. Those trees on Loma were the only wildlife we had south of 10th Street. And now there’s none,” he said. Hallett contended that the $500 citation issued to the neighbor…
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