SAN DIEGO – As part of the South Mission Beach Green Infrastructure project, the city is removing 46 trees around parking lots along Mission Boulevard in Mission Beach.

To date, 25 of the trees have been removed in the area near Belmont Park.

These tree removals will allow the contractor to begin installing water quality basins, which are intended to remove pollutants from the stormwater runoff of the adjacent parking lots before it flows into the San Diego Bay.

Only trees within the footprint of the new water quality basins are impacted, which includes eight trees that are being relocated to other spots around Mission Beach, according to Tyler Becker, a San Diego senior public information officer.

Once the basins are installed, 43 new trees and other landscaping improvements, like shr

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