SOME SUGGESTIONS

FOR POLICY CHANGE

Posted on Sunday, October. 02, 2005

COCONUT GROVE

SOME SUGGESTIONS

FOR POLICY CHANGE

As much as I really don't want to see a Home Depot in my back yard, I would gladly trade it for:

• The huge condo complex that would be built there;

• Eight- to 10-foot building setbacks on property;

• A moratorium on variances so that contractors can't build on any size property in any location;

• A mandatory $25,000 fine and one year jail sentence for anyone or company owner and manager that allows the cutting down and removal of a tree on weekends or after 5 p.m., anytime when the city cannot intervene.

As many are, I am disgusted and appalled that the contractors that come in here are allowed to circumvent the rules at will, sometimes with the blessing of the city commission -- all for the sake of the ``almighty buck.''

Newsflash! You are destroying the very thing you came here for!

KATHLEEN BRENNAN

Copyright 2005 Knight Ridder

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