Thanks to former St. Augustine Mayor George Gardner and his newsletter, and to St. Augustine Street Tree Advisory Committee Chair, Charles Lippi, certified arborist, for pointing out the illegal tree-killing at Barnes & Noble.
The Barnes & Noble landlord in quo is Retail Strategies, LLC of Jacksonville, Florida.
Former Mayor George Gardner's newsletter notes that some national retailers have a "policy" of killing trees for "visibility!" In response, the Planning and Zoning Board City of St. Augustine responded in rejecting proposed tree-killing at the Target store on U.S. 1: "It's not our policy."
Retail Strategies, LLC should be hauled before a state grand jury and investigated for conspiracy to vioalte the county tree ordinance, which Mr. Lippi said it vioalted.
Code enforders should work seven days a week.
So should environmental regulators.
Polluters and tree-killers should not be allowed to get away with it because the regulators have the day off.
Too often the do, and environmental regulators are powerless. If you've ever been to Texas, or experienced pollution elsewhere, you've noticed that pollution is the worst on nights and weekends.
Ask oil tanker ship crew members the primary cause of oil pollution in the world's oceans and they will tell you: "Nighttime!"
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