Developers in D.C. are free to cut down "protected" trees

[Anonymous]

The fines for cutting down even supposedly protected trees, like 100 year old oaks, are so paltry that developers treat them as the cost of doing business. They make up the cost in rising housing prices.

It is embarrassing how developers in D.C. can do basically anything they want.

https://dcist.com/story/22/02/03/developer-cuts-heritage-tree-takoma/

[Anonymous]

Trees grow back. It’s not like they’re an endangered species.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trees grow back. It’s not like they’re an endangered species.

100 year old oaks do not grow back for another 100 years, and that's assuming they are even planted which usually doesn't happen. It's criminal that DC doesn't enforce their tree canopy laws. I'm not the OP FYI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trees grow back. It’s not like they’re an endangered species.

100 year old oaks do not grow back for another 100 years, and that's assuming they are even planted which usually doesn't happen. It's criminal that DC doesn't enforce their tree canopy laws. I'm not the OP FYI.

This is Mayor Bowsers DC. Everyone is just committing crimes all the time with no consequence.

[Anonymous]

Pick one: 1. affordable housing and green lighting the development needed to increase density or 2. having the proper tree canopy to ensure DC doesn’t act like a heat sink.

Either way, all the stereotypicaly, upper class folks with plenty of yard signs proclaiming their virtue to us all will be hypocritical about this when they choose trees and nimbyism over their desire to help poor people and address cutting trees down to make room for projects..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pick one: 1. affordable housing and green lighting the development needed to increase density or 2. having the proper tree canopy to ensure DC doesn’t act like a heat sink.

Either way, all the stereotypicaly, upper class folks with plenty of yard signs proclaiming their virtue to us all will be hypocritical about this when they choose trees and nimbyism over their desire to help poor people and address cutting trees down to make room for projects..

What I’m saying is the competing demands are tough. This article is funny to me because I cut down similar tree situation. Trees are great. Love em. But fk a single tree. Fk it if costs a builder thousands and thousand in permits and fines and aggravation with neighbors. This is a city. This is not the fking Shenandoah.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trees grow back. It’s not like they’re an endangered species.

Oh look Donald Trump is here

[Anonymous]

Businesses chopping down trees so they can make more money....Where have I heard this story? Oh yes, this is The Lorax. This is literally a parable about the environment that we teach children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Businesses chopping down trees so they can make more money....Where have I heard this story? Oh yes, this is The Lorax. This is literally a parable about the environment that we teach children.

Everybody needs a Thneed!

[Anonymous]

Keep the fines and then mandate that developers every tree removed with 2 or 3 plantings. If the new development cannot support the new plantings then the developer will plant the new trees at a site of the city’s choosing.
Done.

[Anonymous]

What a bunch of tree hating losers these developers are. They better watch out for the Ents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Keep the fines and then mandate that developers every tree removed with 2 or 3 plantings. If the new development cannot support the new plantings then the developer will plant the new trees at a site of the city’s choosing.
Done.

They already do. It’s included along with the fine for cutting the tree.

[Anonymous]

"Indeed I have not seen them roused like this for many an age. We Ents do not like being roused; and we never are roused unless it is clear to us that our trees and our lives are in great danger."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trees grow back. It’s not like they’re an endangered species.

Oh look Donald Trump is here

Trees are a renewable resource, dummy.

Do you understand why that’s important?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trees grow back. It’s not like they’re an endangered species.

Oh look Donald Trump is here

Trees are a renewable resource, dummy.

Do you understand why that’s important?

No wants to trade a beautiful 100-year old oak tree for a few saplings that won't be worth a damn for another 25 years. Also, f*ck these developers. These people are parasites.