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Known for the lawn that leads up to the tower at the top of the hill and the fringe of trees that surround it, its known all over the city, you can see it all over. And part of what the university is proposing as a mitigation is a landscape plan to make sure that those large mature trees are secure and safe. While one mitigation in order to be a mitigation, the trees have to exist. They have to survive the process along the way. And ill give you the example of what went on with loyola village. W...

It needs to include the fact those trees will be platted and marked on the site and given to the planner ahead of the design process so he he can avoid them. That was not done the first time around and i dont think its too much to ask that we go to that next level in terms of making sure those trees survive. I really feel that these need to happen at the imp process because if we await conditional use, once the building is designed its hard to change. And if you look at the plan in there a lot o...

Plan will protect those large mature trees. We didnt have to worry about them. We asked that they be marked during the construction or conditional use phase. They were. But that didnt stop the fact that my wife came home one afternoon and of the eight trees that were 50 to 70 feet tall right directly behind our property, six were already down and one of them stripped. It took her the rest of the morning to get some attention from usf and some attention from the contractor. She saved one of those...