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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I was just on a project where they will developing some new homes on a hillside pasture with beautiful views. One of the guys mentioned how the homes just up the hill on the other side of the road aren’t too happy about it.

“Yeah - and just like THEIR neighbors weren’t too happy about it when THEY built.”

Even in my suburban neighborhood we hear the stories of how the kids used to love playing in the woods where our 40-year old house now stands.

However, I AM glad that the developer of our neighborhood saved as many old trees as possible. I’ve seen some newer developers that will cut down every single tree leaving it a barren wasteland. They pay a fine - but probably make more on the timber than the fine costs.


46 posted on 10/26/2019 4:08:41 AM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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To: 21twelve

Where I live there is a new development going in behind us. Our developers had meetings with the developers and town planning board in the town library to voice concerns of our community.

We are about 10 miles west of Walden Pond. When my neighbors were wrangling with the developers I was struck by the irony of the fact that Thoreau wrote four times about his visits to our town around 1858, writing effusively about the ancient stand of oaks trees, about a mile square, the last such in New England. Not a single tree remains, the stand occupied by our homes and the library.


48 posted on 10/26/2019 4:41:13 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Be vewy, vewy quiet. Adam Fudd is hunting Wussians!)
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