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Page 89 1 THE WITNESS: I'm good. 2 MS. RUDIN: -- to let you know that the 3 tree is doing beautifully. The tree that you planted 4 on my lawn. 5 THE WITNESS: I drive past it 6 regularly. 7 MS. RUDIN: Good. 8 So I just wanted to ask you, do you 9 believe -- is it your impression that the applicant 10 is following, to the greatest of their ability, the 11 intent of the law, which is to save as many trees as 12 possible? 13 THE WITNESS: I -- to the best of my 14 knowledge. I have not seen any of the other 15 testimony or listened to a video or any of the 16 professional -- professionals from Public Service 17 that testified -- that are testifying that the 18 facility has to go where these specimen trees are. 19 So I -- I personally am not convinced 20 that they have attempted to save these trees to the 21 greatest extent possible, particularly when it's the 22 largest trees on the site that are being removed or 23 proposed for removal. I just -- it just doesn't add 24 up in my mind. 25 MS. RUDIN: Thank you.