And now this from TreeWatch . . .

This was sent in from TreeWatch:

Just learned yesterday that the City Public Works Department granted permits to the Capital Improvements Department to cut down another five trees as part of "Phase 1" of the Coconut Grove BID sidewalk "improvement" plan. This is in addition to the nine going down on Florida Avenue.

The newly doomed trees are four mature mahogany trees, two each on Virginia and Mary Streets and one pink Tababuia also on Mary. None of these trees were discussed at the two public meetings previously held to introduce the public to the BID's plans. This is the first we hear of this, and we cannot help but wonder, how many more are they looking to take down in order to replace them with the expensive ($10,000 per) Silva Cell Trees.

Silva Cell is manufactured by only one company. In Florida it has been used in only three projects. All of them parking lots. "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone...."

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