This is pretty silly when you sit back and think about it. When you have
parking for
165,000 cars who cares about a few trees around it. This parking lot is
going
to be so huge you could run 10 Nationals courses at the same time! So
forget
about the trees.
Mike B.
Craig Blome wrote:
> --- Pat Kelly <lollipop@ricochet.net> wrote:
> > Greg,
> > Someone will want to plant trees and shrubs to
> > take away from the ugliness
> > of a parking lot, I betcha. In fact, some places in
> > the country have
> > legislation that any new parking lots must have
> > trees, etc. to beautify the
> > area.
> > --Pat Kelly
> >
>
> Actually there is another reason...limiting the
> "impervious cover" (ecospeak for pavement) is supposed
> to control the amount of rainwater that runs off into
> creeks and rivers, carrying pollution with it. Of
> course it doesn't actually do diddlysquat what with
> all the developers dumping who knows what from their
> construction sites, but it lets the city bureaucrats
> look like they are doing something. :-P
>
> Craig B., writing from Austin TX where the trees have
> an attitude problem
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