Unite to Save Trees Threatened by University of Florida

Is the University of Florida turning into another bad neighbor, like Flagler college and the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind?
First it gave a no-bid lease, without a sedcurity deposit, to the WHETSTONE family to take over operation of the Spanish Bakery.
Now UF wants to tear down a hughe old oak tree next door to the Spanish Bakery., which would deprive that beautiful place, and surrounding lots, of tree canopy.
Arborist Chuck Lippi's letter this morning to PZB must be respected -- there is no principled reason to tear down the trees here, supposedly to expand a restroom. UF must not be permitted to destroy one of the only old oaks along all of St. George Street.
Tomorrow's St. Augustine City Planning and Zoning Board meeting will consider UF's misbegotten application, which should be DENIED. It takes a village to save a tree. We've done it before and we'll do it again.
Happy New Year.