Just another slap on the wrist
More than one person sent me these photos. It's the corner of Shipping and Gifford. I'm not sure what I am to do with the pictures after the fact, but here they are. Sickening.
Where are the neighbors when this is happening? Do people just ignore what they see and go on with their lives? When you see something, you should say something. Call 311 or Email: EnvironmentalRes@miamigov.com or call: 305-416-1400. You can be anonymous. But let's try to protect our tree canopy.
Tree Watch can be reached at 786-351-5928 or GroveTreeWatch@aol.com but calling 311 is faster. The City approved this particular mess. They had a permit. Why?
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I called the Tree Man Trust yesterday when I saw this. Somehow, unfortunately I was told they had a permit.
They got the permit by underhanded means since no one in the area ever saw the posted notice to schedule a hearing to make an appeal. I have been watching that property as I drive by and today asked a walker who strolls past everyday if she ever saw a posted notice. I assure you if it was ever there in full view and not removed by someone in the employ of the developer during the prescribed number of days, there would have been a very vocal resistance in City Hall to cut a single mature live oak down for any reason, even the bogus claim of possible disease. That looks like the excuse given on the signed authorization to remove FIVE that happen to be right in the middle of the lots. So, in the end once again the developer has won out over the rules that are supposed to preserve our canopy. The same thing just happened a block away months before. How can the neighborhood defend against this? Its does no good to report after the fact. This should be the job of those to whom we pay our property tax every year...
I never saw a posting in the area! Those tree provided so much canopy in the area. ☹️
We have to replace the elected officials whose job it is to require that the laws on the books are followed. That is our only power over those who take bribes and/or look the other way.
Not so much as a slap on the wrist, but more like a pat on the back! Shine a light on who signed off on this, and hold them accountable.
I am going to start planting trees wherever there is a need for tree shade without notifying anyone. Catch me if you can.
There must be a record of who signed the permit to remove the trees. How do we find out who this person is so we can take appropriate action and have him or her exposed?
Whoever signed off on this needs to be taken by and shown just what they killed and then fired.
Al tree-cutting contractors who work in the city should be required to know all the codes and then held responsible as much as the developer.
The Grove, such as the Village Council should have the final review and approval/disapproval of what happens in the Grove. They are our elected officials whom we can hold accountable.
The developer should be required to leave the trees as is. Build his speculation home and see how quick he can sell it with the dead trees!
People, cows, pigs, sheep, elephants, bears, fish and birds are born and die, it's call the cycle of life and to date no one can modify that fact. I read that in one battle involving Rome about 80,000 Roman solders were hacked to death. American's kill about 1,000,000 innocent Vietnamese a few decades ago, quite a few in Iraq and humans killed upwards of about 150,000,000 in two world wars, and human population is never-the-less increasing. All of you know damn well you can't construct housing and building's in Dade County and just about any other location in Florida or mostly across the U.S., without planting trees and plants in great abundance. I'm positive it will look very, very good when it's finished. P.S. And I try to go to the Florida Keys 3 times weekly, from Coconut Grove across the bay,just to get away from people, the stupid drivers, red lights and as I return every time I see nothing but greenery everywhere and each time I fly in or out of Miami - take a break! Jobie Steppe
These trees haven't been cut down, they've been trimmed back, for now to accommodate construction, and may be trimmed further after construction begins. This happens often and the trees are further trimmed so as not to harm housing during hurricane season and to keep possums, raccoons, snakes, rats, ants, roaches and other animals out of our homes.
What kind of tree was it? Hard to tell from the pics.
EVeryone commenting on this thread needs to tear down his/her house and plant more trees, then just live in the trees.
If you do anything less while talking this BULLSH*T, you're a hypocrite. Also, not very bright.
Ops, I spoke out to soon. I wrote yesterday the trees hadn't been cut down only trimmed. I live on Gifford and noticed today they had been cut down. Sorry, Jobie Steppe
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