In a city well-known for its love of trees and flowers, a single live oak stands in the way of a planned entrance to the new Publix Super Market under construction on U.S. 98.
A city committee will meet with the developer Wednesday to discuss the tree’s fate.
Members of the city’s tree committee say they believe the tree must be spared from the chain saw. The entrance could be redesigned or the tree transplanted, they said.
Live oak blocking Publix entrance
Why? Why do these thoughtless people continue to threaten trees? Trees are our friends. They provide so much for us and all they ask in return is an occasional hug.
You knew it was coming: another save the tree headline from Fairhope.
What they need is someone to climb the tree and live in it until it’s saved. Or maybe everyone should just form a circle around it and hug it. Come on Eastern Shore Tree Huggers, we can save this tree. Yes, we can. Yes, we can. 
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Drive by there and look at that tree… Why does one live oak (in state right-of-way ie STATE PROPERTY) incite a tree huggers paradise, but yet the hundred or so trees that were cleared for the build footprint did not?
Fairhope had say over those trees, not so much the trees in state right-of-way. Have those horticulturalists in Fairhope not learned to play nice with the big boys from Montgomery?
Chuck, it seems asanine that construction would not have started if the plans were not approved. Simply put either the developer (evil) hid the tree on the plans (whiteout) or the city (angelic) didn’t see it (oversight, due to the stress of the election). I think you get my point. When are we going to go knock back a few cold ones?
When the architect drew the plans for the new store the oak tree was there then, it didn’t grow over night. Provisions should have been may then, to reroute the entrance.
Or provisions could have been made then to cut the tree down.
I believe during site plan review it would have been addressed… I’ve worked in the Ole F’hope. I don’t have a dog in this fight, but the rendering I saw shows six live oaks replacing one…
I like how Kant noted they really don’t have any authority to dictate what happens with that tree. I cracked when I saw that. Why waste everyones time when all positions have been made clear and you have no authority to enforce. If I was the developer I’d get my attorney involved. Where’s Tut in all of this?
Anyone who wants to meet at Vitollis in R’dale for a beer let me know…
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