A guy named Nikalai, wrote a letter to the Miami Herald, it ran yesterday. He was bitching about the trees on Grand Avenue being removed, you know, the scrawny ones with the yellow flowers. But that's good news as we reported in April. Those trees that are always falling over and never seem to grow are being replaced by sturdy Verawoods.
The scrawny yellow ones are going to the entrance to Virginia Key.
Nikalai was right about his assessment saying that, "There was no public notice. Just a done deal." But TreeWatch was notified and there was discussion about it and there are large signs like the one shown above, up and down Grand Avenue.
While this project has big signs on the street, but not much public input, the right thing seems to be getting done. Better and stronger trees that look the same as the current ones (with the yellow flowers) will now be put in their place and rather than just do away with the current trees, they will be replanted in a larger space where they can thrive.
Nikalai's concern may be that there aren't many public notices when it comes to the trees in Coconut Grove these days. The ones on Commodore Plaza are still not marked for removal, or I should say, "remarked" the City said they would notify all concerned parties about their plans but so far nothing.
Originally they did have notices placed on trees, but they were placed very poorly and also notices did not go out via email or snail mail to concerned citizens nor TreeWatch or Tree Man Trust, two Grove entities that are concerned about the removal.
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