So let's hang everyone South of 466 and stick them with the fine !I am not an Einstein ,but I think I would know the sound of chain saws and work trucks rumbling through such a small and elite neighborhood, and want to know what is going on?No I am not happy paying for someone that has committed a crime,and the cutting of those oaks was a crime plain and simple......I am not looking for an argument just stating my opinion.

How about call the media and stage a march around the roundabout at the entrance to Bridgeport. Just a coincidence that on the opposite side is the signature golf course. There must be an upcoming event........

Just curious, but who decided that a select few, i.e. people south of CR 466, should bear the expense of this instead of the entire community?

You want to hear some squealing, just tell the folks up at Mulberry Grove that they have to chip in on this too.

I guess if someone should happen to come by and cut down one of our palm trees, we would get a replacement paid for by everyone south of CR 466.

Not an issue of rich vs poor. Simply a criminal act perpetrated by one or more who benefitted and some neighbors who are either beind coerced (maybe scared)into silence or are complicit.

This definitely should not be allowed to stand. During WWII there was a popular admonision "Loose lips sink ships" If we keep the pressure on , someone will eventually loosen up.

But I still don't understand, Bonanza. What do you suspect is the conspiracy? The bill, the fine, to the St.John's River Authority has to be paid. This happened last fall. That doesn't mean the district can't sue in the future if they find out which homeowner is responsible.

What am I missing? And thank you for the kind remark.

I don't get it. Who besides the people who PROBABLY had it done who wanted a clear view to the water could be at fault???? WHO would benefit? It is on a sort of island of land in Lake Miona behind four homes who reportedly (wasn't that in the paper?)had wood stacked behind their houses. The island does not belong to any of them. It belongs to the district, a kind of common area, a preserve that the St.John's River Authority has power over. It isn't the homeowners land but the homeowners benefited from a clear view to water. The land belongs to the CDD, i.e. all of us who live south of 466 are part of that CDD.

If someone stole all of the flowers from a piece of land in the middle of one of our streets and the district replaced them, we would be mad, but our money would pay to replace them. We could leave it bare. (But in this case The St. John's river bunch says to replace them)

. If someone saw a bunch of flowers in someone's yard that matched those flowers they'd be PRETTY SURE...but how can you prove that?

That is how it looks to me. How does it look to others????

I am hoping that someone is gonna find out and we on this forum will KNOW who did it and that landscaper is gonna be toast.

I HOPE Someone is gonna be found out. AND HOPEFULLY ante up, but you cannot convict someone even if they look guilty as hell. You have to have proof. Doesn't anyone watch true crime on TV like I do??? lol.

OK so I'm going to pay for something that I'm not going to get. It's the American way. I think this case should be looked at by the state attorney general.

The conspiracy is not the act of cutting , but the obvious pact of silence by some in the neighborhood after the fact

OH Gawd. I wish I had studied law. I don't think that is how it works. THANK goodness we have laws although it seems they are protecting the guilty way tooo much.

When a guy, a really bad guy does something wrong and is caught, and is put in jail for years, maybe life?...Guess who is paying for his baked beans? And his beddy bye?

I would love to have a bake sale in the street in front of these four homes in order to earn money to pay for the trees. I think things like this and my husband says, "that isn't nice and it would do NO good." He thinks the same about marches.

In this world there are the hot heads and there are the thinkers. And there is me, that used to think that there was an answer for all problems, that was when I was young and a lib....WHOOPS.

Now now, gracie!!! You don't want to be banished to that other forum!! [emoji79]

But she would have said that if that was the case. It sounds like they are thinking exactly what you said in your paragraph about the "inference."

Perhaps this could be crimes against seniors. After all we are the district we the district monies comes from us. Seeing as they cant find the culprits then?

This makes so much sense...............not!