After Google chopped down more than 800 trees in Mountain View to make way for an office project that it later abandoned, the tech behemoth has now agreed to pay up to $703,000 to plant hundreds of new trees throughout the city.
The Mountain View City Council unanimously approved a tree mitigation agreement with Google on Sept. 9, providing some closure to long-running concerns about the status of an excavated site at 2001 Landings Drive in North Bayshore.
“Google has worked to make the location safe and have some habitat value until it’s finally developed,” Councilmember Pat Showalter said at the meeting. “They’ve cleaned it up and put in grasses.”…