Trees for nature Friday

We take Beau for a ride each Sunday morning while others are sleeping, giving us the entire road. We drive by this construction site, each week to check the progress on 33 homes to be built on 10 acres. See Prior Post Jordan Creek

 

The whole thing started in 2021 and there is still no sign of a home and they have now removed every single tree that was on the property. The plan stated replace 122 trees, leave 52.

There are NOW 174 trees gone to never return. You can see here, they have built the site up to 4 feet higher than the other older homes. If rain ever returns to us, the houses surround this development will be flooded from the run off.

These trees are across the street from the planned homes and the ones they removed most of them were like these. I feel sad when I see these gorgeous grand old trees still standing. for now.

Ranting Post, More Green Space Gone

 

We live walking distance to Westminster Presbyterian Church. 

In 2021 they sold it for 1.3 million dollars. 9 acres of land. 9 acres of green grass and over 100 trees, mature beautiful trees.

Now We Know The Plans For it.

Top left collage, the Church,  right is the aerial view, 

bottom of collage of what it looks like now.

Bob said what are they doing? I said they are going to build 33 houses where the church was. My research is below! 

Current Ariel View, See all the trees, there were over 100 trees on the 9 acres.

GONE by bulldozers

MY RANT TODAY IS ABOUT THE GREEN SPACE, grass and trees Gone forever.

They are filling the 9 acres with 33 houses, tiny trees, concrete driveways and streets plus they built up the land by bring dirt from some other place. New homes must be built up becaue of furture flooding caused by humans doing what they are doing. 

Renditon below that was filed in public records, how they will fit 33 houses there.

A petition was signed by 206 homeowners in the neighborhood asking them to sell it to the other bidder for the property which was another church that wanted it. A church that would leave the green space, 9 acres of grass and mature trees.

Ignoring the homeowners, Shocker! The City approved the homes, 33 not 44 as they wanted to do, with the understanding they would leave 52 mature trees, and replace the ones they take down with 122 trees. 

THEY LEFT FIVE TREES STANDING out of 122 trees.

Of course, the city planners said NO to having 9 acres of grass and trees and a church, and yes to 33 homeowners who will pay taxes to the city.  MONEY ALWAYS WINS!

In a five-mile stretch the other side of the interstate, 3 cattle farms, 2 dairy farms, are now gone forever and full of 10s of thousands of homes, the people who buy them work in Tampa Area and commute down the interstate. per the last census, in 2021, there are 135,000 homes in our small space. 

Our local news had a special about our disappearing green space, the kind that allows our earth to soak in water and breathe and gives green space for bugs and bees and critters to do what they were intended to do that they can't do on concrete and pavement. 

Build more homes, build more roads, make the parks more people friendly by paving places to play games and adding fences and shelter. 

This is a LINK to the new area, Jordan Creek at West Bradenton. THERE IS NO CREEK. if you go to the link, you can see a larger pic of what will replace the trees and grass, just click on the small photo to the right. 

plans recorded in public records shows what they were supposed to do with the trees!