My city celebrated by slashing and burning hundreds of trees behind my
house. I can't figure out the city council. Every chance they get
they'll rip out the green spaces around established housing areas and
stuff in some retail space. We literally have more empty retail space
than full. Some of it new and never occupied. I should probably
consider myself fortunate. A few blocks up the road they removed the
green space, built a 20 foot wall and then a Walgreens store on top of
it. Some unlucky residents went from a beautiful wooded view to a 20
foot concrete wall in a matter of months.