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Page 68 1 despite West Orange having the strictest tree 2 ordinance in the State of New Jersey, despite the 3 fact this Applicant is exceeding all the requirements 4 of all of that, and despite the fact that you said 5 the forester approved all of this, do you feel that 6 the forester who is working presently -- I don't know 7 how to say this nicely -- does not know what he's 8 doing. 9 THE WITNESS: Well, the forester -- the 10 forester's job is to enforce the ordinance. 11 And people may not like the outcome of 12 that, but the ordinance is the ordinance. 13 And the -- but the preamble to this 14 ordinance, before we get to the compensation for 15 removing healthy trees, the purpose is to protect and 16 foster the existence and health of trees growing 17 within the town borders and to preserve the maximum 18 possible trees in the development of this site or 19 lot; to protect specimen trees. Encourage innovative 20 design and grading to promote the protection of the 21 existing trees and to prevent indiscriminate, 22 uncontrolled excessive removal of cutting of trees, 23 et cetera, et cetera. 24 That's right from -- from section C in 25 findings and purpose of this ordinance.