Church Drive is one of Corinth’s last remaining treasures. It is an aesthetically pleasing, tree-canopied street under attack by city council. All of the trees along Church Drive will be cut down, and mitigation of those trees will do nothing to restore it to its original beauty.
In the beginning, the council assured us that some of the trees would be saved. On April 28th, they recanted and told us that all 500 of the trees would be destroyed.
But this issue is not about trees. It’s about aesthetics and the quality of life we as citizens of Corinth want for ourselves and our children. This is about the historical relevance of a street that the city’s founders travelled to attend church services in the early years of Corinth’s township. This is about the unnecessary expenditure of our tax dollars.
This is not a hoax or an exaggeration. Church Drive and other city treasures will disappear if we fail to act. We must let city council know that we will not allow our city to be homogenized for the sake of convenience in design and construction.
The city’s governance of this matter borders on criminal neglect. Help us stop them before they make another huge mistake.
The next city council meeting is on May 21st, 2009 at 7 p.m. Council meetings are held at city hall located at 3300 Corinth Parkway. Your attendance is vital. Please attend this meeting and sign up to voice your concerns. For more information, please email us at citizensofcorinth@yahoo.com.
I have lived here almost 13 years. Where is Church Street?
ReplyDeleteCan you tell us why they want to remove the trees?
ReplyDeleteThey want to remove the trees to make room for pavement. The new road will be 37 feet wide with a middle turn lane. Don't understand why Church Drive needs all of that. It's not an arterial road and there are other more important issues the city could be dealing with in that area, like the flooding that takes place in that empty subdivision on Post Oak. How many more botched construction projects does Corinth need before we stop the council?
ReplyDeleteThe only connectivity issue Church and the residents along it have is a pedestrian one. We need a sidewalk on Church, but it doesn't require taking down the trees. In fact, the trees would enhance (i.e. protect, beautify) a pedestrian walkway.
What the hell, council? Get your heads out of your asses.