Photo by Constructed Space.

Oh Watergate residents. In today’s privileged people complaining about ridiculous things story, we give you this: Watergate residents are petitioning the National Park Service to cut down trees along the Potomac. Because the trees ruin their views from their condos. And decrease their property values. And they live in the Watergate, don’t you know.

The response? Harriet Tregoning, a D.C. planning director and member of the National Capital Planning Commission, told the Georgetown Dish, “If every time someone’s view is obstructed, we cut trees down, it would be devastating to the city.”

But these people live in the Watergate, they are not just any person asking, National Park Service. It’s hurting their property value, these pesky trees. The National Park Service contends they are growing the trees for historical accuracy. A 1930s plan for Rock Creek Parkway has sycamores, which were cut down in the 1960s, for, you guessed it, the construction of the Watergate. The Watergate residents have even offered to pay the cost to have the trees moved, and replaced with less tall greenery – shrubs for instance.

Because you know, those sycamores, they grow to over 100 feet. The Watergate residents claim support of D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and Councilman Jack Evans. Yet, the National Capital Planning Commission has the final say whether the trees stay or go. The next meeting is February 3, so stay tuned to see if the rich uppity folks get to ax those trees.