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                             residents wanting to preserve the small town  identity of Fernandina Beach and its natural beauty.

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  • 07 May 06  City Commissioners, Please Help...
  My name is John Hoffman, and I recently moved in with my new wife,  2197 Talbot Ct.  I am truly concerned with the development going on behind our property.   It is called the "Cape Sound" development.  They have completely wiped out the the nature we had behind our homes.  They have taken down over 100 trees, and destroyed even more by taking out the roots systems.  They were suppose to have left a 20 foot buffer behind the county fence which would have left those trees.  Instead they have dug down 10 feet or more within 4 feet of the fence.  That has literally wiped out all the trees  behind the fence and killed trees on our side.   The ground tampering they have done has cracked walls and floors in our home and our neighbors, Jim and Marcia Coe.  Now they tell us they are going to remove the fence and install their wall on the property line.  They were fined a mere $200 per tree for the first 90 they took out, but have taken even more since then.  Jim Coe has pictures of them taking out the trees that were clearly tagged to save.  I don't understand how they can get away with this, and then build a wall 20 feet past their limit.  Why aren't they keeping 20' easement, and replacing the trees they removed?
 If there is any way you can help, or have any suggestions...please call our home: xxx-xxxx . You can also contact Marcia   on her cell phone, xxx-xxxx.  This an urgent request, as they may start paving any day now in the area we are concerned with.

 

  Thank you ,
  John and Tammy Hoffman
  Jim and Marcia Coe

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  • 14 Oct 05   Last flight out
Excerpted from News-Leader

While the city makes its ill-fated gesture towards following rules and regulations, the Cape Sound development bulldozers have cleared land all the way up to the back yards of Talbot and Cumberland Court.  No buffer at all.  No more oaks and brush, nothing but bare dirt to chain link.  Sickening.

The bulldozer noise went on until after dark, during Tropical Storm Tammy and all during the rain the next Wednesday night.

It is lovely to listen to rain on the roof at 7 a.m. with the elegant intrusion of back-up beepers blasting on heavy equipment.  I guess we have no right to have quality of life. We are the middle class and have no voice with the government.

Only thing is, when the nuevo-conservatives turn around during their pious parade of wealth, they will soon see not one person behind them because they have wiped out their entire army, their own countrymen.  I believe it was called the fall of Rome at one time.

We were seeing all kinds of migratory birds in our yard and now none since the bulldozers. I don't blame them for leaving.  If I could live as light as they do I'd leave as well.

Sherry Garbarini, Fernandina Beach

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