To the editor: Town of Whittier has lengthy confronted an issue with walkability of its major industrial 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 challenge.
What are Whittier’s leaders pondering?
Strolling areas with bushes are among the most essential 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 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 in no way fitted to metropolis or residential streets, as Whittier’s ordeal with Greenleaf Avenue exhibits.
I’d wish to know why town of Los Angeles, the place I lived earlier than shifting to Georgia, determined years in the past to plant ficus bushes throughout. I say take away and change them with California-native shade bushes.
Gail Midday, Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga.
