Yes I know what you mean, property rights and all that but huge old trees are wonderful and we hate to see them cut down. we lost one of the biggest pines I have ever seen when our street was widened and turned into a main thoroughfare.
I’ve seen pics of my town a log time ago. The main street was lined with huge old chestnuts, limed white about 4 feet up the trunk.
Hubby’s grandparents lived in upstate NY, almost in canada. Their street was lined, both sides, with unbelievably huge trees. They had a microburst one spring, not quite a tornado, and it took them all out. :(