A small house and a giant tree
Palms is constantly changing — these will be gone before you know it

It won't be long before a giant tree at 3509 Keystone (seen in bloom at the right) and a small house at 10515 Rose St. (box below) will be history.

Few, we suppose, will miss them — especially pedestrians who try to make their way along the Keystone Ave. sidewalk just south of Palms Blvd., where the roots of this big tree have lifted up the pavement: The city has tried to patch it, but not successfully.

3509 Keystone is the property where a developer wanted to build five units on an approx. 5,000-net-sq.-ft. site in an R3-1 zone. The city turned down the plan because it did not conform to a setback requirement, so it's back to the drawing board, but the days of the old tree are probably numbered nevertheless.

When it goes, so will the palm-tree sapling that is thriving as a guest of its bigger cousin (left).

A public hearing will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 16, in the City Hall on a proposal to build a four-story, five-unit residential condominium to replace the single-family home at 10515 Rose Ave. (below). The applicant is asking for rear-yard and side-yard setback adjustments. There would be 12 parking spaces. (Tentative tract map No. 66149 and Case No. ENV-2006-6543-MND.)

A four-story building will replace this house on Rose St. near National.