More trees, please
I see less and less trees in the Grove and we all know that Miami comes out on the bottom of most list in "tree canopy coverage." Now these fools want to do away with the little bit of trees that we have to make way for billboards.
The Douglas Road Metrorail station is a total shame. There are basically no trees in site, which would make for a beautiful station, especially when waiting to pick up someone from the train. The hot sun beats down and makes for a very unpleaseant experience. You can imagine the feeling of leaving the train and exiting into the arid sun-drenched hot hot parking lot and then getting into a
150 degree car.
posted by Tom Falco at 4:52 PM
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I am SO with you. There is a steady and the trees are only part of it. There's the Mcmansions with prison style gates and 5 blades of grass per property. There are these lazy asses with the golf carts that kids are increasingly getting their hands on. Home depot will turn us into an industrial site.
The botched job with the Grand Avenue improvement has given us those 5 feet tall 1 inch thick sidewalks and median. The Grove she is a changing. We are one the most politically active communities in the city but it seems like we just can't be heard by government.
Should have just saved the money and lived in Hialeah since that's what it may come to if something is not done.
And Manny ran virtually unopposed...
Keep fightin'!
In my suburban neighborhood here in Broward County, many trees were lost to Wilma. Unfortunately, most are not being replaced by residents who see maintaining a tree as too much work and just another thing to pick up after a storm. It really is a shame.
I`m all for it...We need more trees...!
I've never encountered anything like this: a subtropical location whose population resents trees or vegetation of any sort. Anywhere else, somebody proposing to rip out trees to make billboards more visible would be hooted off the stage, accompanied by flung fruit. South Florida should look like a jungle, not a sandlot. Mind boggling.
I think Fidel Castro is killing all the trees. Just kidding, just kidding. You have to have a sense of humor about these things or you will pull all of your hair out.
Grovites, unless there was election fraud (a very real possibility here in Miami) you voted for Winton, you voted for Manny and you knew what they were about. McMansions, neighborhood deterioration and development with infrastructure or design. Oh, and did I forget corruption?
Fuck the trees. I just bought a new house and the first thing I'm gonna do is cut down all the trees on the property. Then I'll pour cement across the entire front lawn, turning everything into a drive way. Then I'll turn the garage into an efficiency (for rental income) and build an addition to the back of the house and make that an efficiency too (more rents). After all this hard work, I will relax in air conditioned comfort and gaze at the unobstructed view of ClearChannel billboards.
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