1/2 an Acre on the Docket for Destruction in Stamford
- The Cove
- Nov 18
- 3 min read
This time, it's the Home Goods' owner wanting to extend their parking lot to add 46+ spaces, despite the fact that this is a very exaggerated parking issue...
THE PROBLEMS WITH THIS:
This forest is on a steep ridge; a high-erosion (and therefore, flood-risk) area. Forests and dense plant growth prevent erosion.
There are several houses atop the hill, whose homes will have no buffer between a busy, noisey, light-polluted commercial area. Their backyards are now at risk of more flood erosion.
With total drama (and science!): We are all breathing worse air every time trees are removed in this city. Car fumes and diesel smog every day with i-95 traffic? We breathe that.
Trees are the only defense we have; both producing clean oxygen and absorbing pollutants. This is a serious public-health issue on so many scales of both physical and mental wellness:
We are losing beauty. Joy. LIFE! Birds, insects, squirrels, owls, raccoons, foxes, rabbits--will be homeless before starving to death if they can't relocate. The housing crisis is worse for wildlife. Unlike humans who develop condos and high-rises to address our shortages, we can't just add a high-rise for homeless wildlife. That is called an old growth forest. And we cut down their 'high-rise' trees. It takes a few years to build us homes and at least a century to fully replace theirs.
Resident Paula Waldman and neighbors have documented photos of the lot at different times of day thru/out the week, proving it is almost never full; rendering the reason for this application impractical and unnecessary.
Shared parking addresses the perceived issue.
This goes against the Mayor's Comprehensive 2035 Plan's commitment to climate change, flood mitigation, urban forestry & sustainability...
WHAT WE CAN DO!
There is no public hearing or physical meeting yet. We CAN, however, attend the virtual planning board meeting (which is reviewing approval of the permit to do this)
TUESDAY NOV. 18TH 6:30PM
Click the Join Teams Meeting blue underlined link on this page:
I ask that you all join the virtual meeting WITH A PROFILE PIC OF A TREE, BOBCAT, OR OWL! Yes, literally.
This is the only way we are allowed to communicate in this meeting, since we cannot speak, and it is virtual.
You can go on watching youtube, cooking, munching on snacks, whatever! --during this meeting. You don't have to be present, talk, or do anything. Pay it no attention, if you wish or can't. JUST PLEASE SIGN IN, CHANGE PROFILE PIC, AND STAY SIGNED IN.
WE JUST NEED THEM TO SEE SOME TREES & WILDLIFE JOINING THE MEETING!!! It's a visual message; symbolic advocacy.
2. Also: Please write the planning/zoning board BY 2PM TUES, email a letter or simple statement, copied to these emails:
Feel free, to use some of the images below to support your emails.**
3. Please share this. Power is in the sum of us!
Overwhelming the city with support for the trees is our best bet.
THANK YOU FOR CARING.
Protecting Trees is about Protecting, Respecting, & Honoring LIFE itself.
Be humbled by a tree--plants (fun fact!) (and technically cyanobacteria...) made this planet hospitable enough that life could even exist!
Every breath we breathe, is one bestowed upon us by busy and beautiful plants.
💚💙🌲🌳🌎
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