I once owned a restaurant 50 feet from that tree, Concord has always been run by idiots, so I sold it and left!
Reminds of Thousand Oaks, Calif.; the zoning people made a developer leave as many of the scrub oaks as possible and they ended up in lawns.
Every buyer installed sprinklers and sod and then immediately began watering; the reason the scrub oaks thrived in the area prior to development was because of the naturallly, arid climate.
Close to half the trees died or fell ill; the zoners made them shut off the sprinklers.
Then the sod died; the zoners finally okayed the use of green spray dye.
A bunch of them gave up and moved to Camarillo, the Left Coast’s answer to Bellevue.