{"id":85947,"date":"2025-12-16T22:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85947\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:59:09","slug":"fort-lauderdale-commissioners-to-decide-the-future-of-trees-along-las-olas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/85947\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale commissioners to decide the future of trees along Las Olas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0December 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0December 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale commissioners to decide future of Las Olas trees  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 The black olive trees planted decades ago along Las Olas Boulevard are a subject of debate for commissioners on Tuesday night in Fort Lauderdale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The commissioners have to consider a proposed redesign that would get rid of the median where the trees are and widen the sidewalks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The preservationists, who want to protect the trees\u2019 charm and history, held a \u201cSave The Trees\u201d rally. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As a compromise, some of the supporters of the redesign advocated for planting new trees. Canary Island palms or new oaks were an option.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the meeting at 6 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related link: <a href=\"https:\/\/fortlauderdale.legistar.com\/View.ashx?M=A&amp;ID=1231048&amp;GUID=1AF6D061-0ADD-4D93-8DE9-A59C9355BF6E\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/fortlauderdale.legistar.com\/View.ashx?M=A&amp;ID=1231048&amp;GUID=1AF6D061-0ADD-4D93-8DE9-A59C9355BF6E\">Commission meeting\u2019s agenda (.PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">YOUR OPINION: What do you think the commissioners\u2019 decision should be? Share your thoughts in the comment section below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Byron Tollefson\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b58c08f2-f400-4245-95df-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Byron Tollefson<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Byron Tollefson joined Local 10 News as a reporter in July 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0December 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM Updated:\u00a0December 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM Fort Lauderdale commissioners to decide future&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-85947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}