[Barefoot]

Letter to Editor in online newspaper:

If it has been awhile since you’ve traveled north on CR 101 between 466 and CR 102, you might want to revisit this 2-mile stretch of road. Prepare to be shocked by the devastation. Until a week ago, 28 massive oaks stood along this little-traveled roadway. Now all are gone, and it seems that many more await felling. This is a travesty. The Sumter County Board of Commissioners should be ashamed. Not only are these grand trees gone, but so are the nesting habitats of hawks and other birds. The Glenview golf course is now more visible from the road. So are some homes within The Villages. Good-bye privacy. A year ago, a big flap ensued when a few large oaks were felled in one of The Villages neighborhoods. Where is the outcry over this present situation? I would like to see this project halted immediately and reassessed. There has to be a better answer.

[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Barefoot

Letter to Editor in online newspaper:

If it has been awhile since you’ve traveled north on CR 101 between 466 and CR 102, you might want to revisit this 2-mile stretch of road. Prepare to be shocked by the devastation. Until a week ago, 28 massive oaks stood along this little-traveled roadway. Now all are gone, and it seems that many more await felling. This is a travesty. The Sumter County Board of Commissioners should be ashamed. Not only are these grand trees gone, but so are the nesting habitats of hawks and other birds. The Glenview golf course is now more visible from the road. So are some homes within The Villages. Good-bye privacy. A year ago, a big flap ensued when a few large oaks were felled in one of The Villages neighborhoods. Where is the outcry over this present situation? I would like to see this project halted immediately and reassessed. There has to be a better answer.

I played Glenview this week and it WAS shocking/sad to see all of those magnificent oaks butchered.

While I understand that there isn't room to widen the existing road without cutting some of them down, it would have been nice if they had bought more right-of-way on the west side of the road in the farmers field area and left more of the trees that segregate the course and existing homes from the road.