Milam's  petition

Milam's is asking customers to sign a petition approving the Class II permit that the residents of Coconut Grove are appealing. 

We want to keep the grocery store as much as we ever did; we stood in front of that store weekend after weekend to save Milams. That is where the majority of our 13,000 petitions were signed!

We are not against the design of Home Depot  - we are against Home Depot............ for the way they operate.  They are not good neighbors and have proven this by their SW 8th store.   

We are against everything they will bring to our community: traffic (5,000 cars a day),  double parking of subcontractors and laborers waiting to secure that day's labor, noise, deliveries, the loss of neighborhood businesses, reduction in the property value of our homes, shopping carts in our swales, crime, etc.  These are just the few that jump out at you. 

Watch "Don't Box Me In"  for a second time then think.....and put on your "Say No to Home Depot" t-shirt on and go to Milams and tell them why you don't want a Home Depot in our neighborhood!  Replace your "No Home Depot" sign on your fence or lawn.

We were at Milam's to save the store not to create a 166,000 sq. ft. concrete structure to replace the 105,000 sq. ft. K-mart and Milam's. We were at Milam's to save the trees not kill them without a permit as Kimzay has done in preparation for the Home Depot's intended plans. We were at Milam's with our petition drive to keep the size and scope of this shopping center from becoming an industrial warehouse with a three-story parking deck.

If you look on Google Earth you will see 2/3 of the site is covered with trees.  If the Home Depot is built not 5% of the site will harbor trees.  Concrete/asphalt retains heat -- it does not allow for rain water absorption, the plans will make our neighborhood hotter and not allow for rainwater absorption. There is no "Green" concern in these plans. All car traffic will be coming from Bird Road to enter the parking deck.......just consider the stacking of cars waiting to enter. The Depot received a Major Use Special Permit (MUSP) variance because it did not have the requisite room to place the driveway cut-outs at appropriate measurements, causing further traffic congestion.

We fight against this plan because it is ill conceived in a City Commission thirsty for building at whatever cost. That cost is the Grove.

Pass this on to your friends and neighbors.                        

P.S.  T-shirts, signs and dvds are available at 3000 Shipping.