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A family whose mobile home in the Anderson Street Mobile Home Park had its utilities turned off as developers began clearing away trees and buildings, camped in despair under a big tree for weeks in 2004 as the Town Creek Builders prepared the land to be bulldozed for the Aspen Ridge site. They had most of their belongings with them at least for a time, while most other residents took what they could haul and disappeared.
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Do you seriously think that a majority of council members care where residents of mobile-home parks and homeless people go?
They keep approving projects that destroy homeless camps and mobile-home parks and old houses without hesitation.
You've got me watching government channel! College football is over so why not? I happened to see some committee looking at a site between S. Locust and S. School that looks like total wetland. It has big willow trees and the same little creek or branch (to use your old-fashioned word) that is now being buried under the Sycamore apartment north of Walgreens runs through that land, reduced to a ditch just before it crosses Ninth Street and flows to Spout Spring Branch at Walker Park. You have published a bunch of photos riding the developers of that site north of Walgreens for their failure to protect the big Sycamore the apartments will be named after and for filling in the creek and probably killing the trees along it.
Are you going to give us some photos of that equally damnable Advance Auto Parks site? The committee tabled that project, so there is still time to get them to think about all the implications of destroying affordable houses that need a little work and filling more wetland!
Forget Aspen Ridge, it will never be environmentally sound after what has happened already. Go protect something that isn't already a done deal!
8:06, I kept watching city 16 after that meeting ended and there was some guy pretending to be Archibald Yell and advocating getting federal troops in to suppress the savages to the west and to make it easier for settlers to take over the "unoccupied prairies and forests." Never realized before that our great frontier heroes probably were racist, money-grubbing-pig white supremacists. The cattle drives of our old westerns showed probably what should be shown. The settlements were abominations and the cattle drovers and trappers were doing what actually fit in with the environment. The sod-busters truly were the environmental miscreants but obviously didn't realize what they were doing to the land they took away from the natives or what their mindless overpopulating would help do to the world.
Aub, you ought to print that photo large and paste it up all over town. It tells the story of the real tragedy better than anything you have published on this site.
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