To the editor: The town of Whittier has lengthy confronted an issue with walkability of its primary business middle, and it thinks the reply is to cut down more than 100 ficus trees in favor of extra concrete and metal for its Greenleaf Avenue beautification mission.
What are Whittier’s leaders considering?
Strolling areas with bushes are a few of the most vital sources for any metropolis. Consider the Tuileries Backyard in Paris, pocket parks in New York Metropolis and even my very own congested hometown of Irvine, the place parks make this metropolis livable and remarkably inexperienced.
Thank goodness the Whittier Conservancy is conscious of those plans and has sued the town. It’s time for Whittier to rethink its plan.
Naomi Gustafson, Irvine
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To the editor: I really like bushes, however ficus bushes are by no means fitted to metropolis or residential streets, as Whittier’s ordeal with Greenleaf Avenue reveals.
I’d wish to know why the town of Los Angeles, the place I lived earlier than transferring to Georgia, determined years in the past to plant ficus bushes throughout. I say take away and substitute them with California-native shade bushes.
Gail Midday, Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga.
