Residents of an Annapolis town house community are going up against the president of their homeowners association, whom they say is cutting down healthy trees and risking erosion while also collecting free trees from a city program.

“The city might want to reconsider giving him trees when he’s a known tree killer and maybe he’ll just cut them down in a year,” said Sharon Weidenfeld, a resident of the Gentry Court community, which is buffered by a forest of about 400 trees slowly being thinned out.