The Beverly Hills City Council on June 13 will consider what to do next with proposed plans to remove 195 tree stumps from two vacant properties known as Parcels 12 and 13 between Santa Monica Boulevard and Civic Center Drive.

The council will tour the sites on a shuttle at 1:30 p.m., and members of the public are invited to join. Anyone who wants to take a shuttle with the City Council should meet at 1:30 p.m. on the Crescent Drive side of City Hall, 455 N. Rexford Ave. RSVP is requested by calling (310)285-1012.

In May, the council directed city staff to remove the stumps, and later decided to revisit the issue. The shuttle tour of the sites will be held prior to the city council meeting on June 13.

The trees were cut down in 2015 by the parcels’ private owner, the Beverly Hills Land Company (BHLC). Thirteen of the stumps are on a two-foot strip running along Santa Monica Boulevard that is the city’s public right of way. The others straddle the property line on land jointly owned by the city and BHLC.

City staff contends that the stump removal is necessary to enable crews to complete gutter and curb repairs along the south side of Santa Monica Boulevard as part of a boulevard reconstruction project.

Opponents of the removal are pressing for only the 13 stumps on the city’s right of way to be removed. The tree removal in 2015 was controversial because it was done without public notice, and crews hired by the BHLC did not request or receive a permit necessary to close a lane on Santa Monica Boulevard for the removal. Some residents want the stumps not entirely on city property to be preserved as evidence if a civil lawsuit is filed in the future against the BHLC.