{"id":10925,"date":"2020-04-11T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=10925"},"modified":"2020-04-11T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T15:56:00","slug":"apex-energy-southerndevelopment-mcdonough-v-quercus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/apex-energy-southerndevelopment-mcdonough-v-quercus\/","title":{"rendered":"Apex Energy-SouthernDevelopment-McDonough v Quercus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Garrett Street in Charlottesville, between Ridge Street and Avon, has excellent \u201cgreen infrastructure\u201d. It is a canopy street. Trees provide shade and shelter, and lower temperatures in the summer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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In 2006 the Charlottesville City Council adopted a 2025 Vision. Item five of the eight point vision was \u201cA Green City\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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The City adopted a plan in 2016 to guide the morphology of its streets. Citizens were involved in the development of the plan. People like canopy trees. Shade is a necessity in a southern city if you intend to walk in the summertime.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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The Garrett Street trees have been celebrated over the years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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In the last decade development pressure has focused on this corridor. But still, in the time of COVID-19, a number of the trees remain. (construction workers maintaining distance).<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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This past week, seven Garrett Street corridor Pin Oaks were dispatched. 10-15,000 square feet of shade gone. Over a million leaves, gone. Carbon sequestration gone.
Apex Energy is building an eight storey energy efficient structure to the south of the stumps . The landscape plan for Apex\u2019s new corporate headquarters shows these noble oaks being replaced by pagoda dogwoods, a flowering plant, a small deciduous shrub that grows to twenty feet, with a trunk up to six inches in diameter. Token trees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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The proposed plantings will not provide the environmental services that these trees brought to our City. This canopy street destruction is deeply discouraging.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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According to talk on the street, the Apex building is being designed by William McDonough + Partners, two thoughtful companies\u2026
Sometimes green is not green.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Apex Energy-SouthernDevelopment-McDonough v Quercus. Garrett Street in Charlottesville, between Ridge Street and Avon, has excellent \u201cgreen infrastructure\u201d. It is a canopy street. Trees provide shade and shelter, and lower temperatures in the summer.","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[32,46,15,54,39,34,60,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlottesville","category-city","category-damage","category-development","category-environmental-justice","category-government","category-trees","category-urban-planning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10934,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925\/revisions\/10934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}