Congratulations! It's about time Lacey reduced the amount of tree cutting permitted. Now we need to reduce the wholesale cutting of woodlands for warehouses and giant subdivisions. Replacing trees and woodlands with concrete and asphalt is not only ugly and ruinous for Lacey's aesthetic appeal. Without the woodlands or prairie cover, the rain pours onto oily, impervious surfaces and drains chemicals directly into the wastewater storm pipes. Without trees, we have no carbon cycle, habitat, photosynthesis, soil enrichment, or any of the other benefits that trees and shrubs give to our environment for free. Lacey has been notorious for allowing contractors and landowners to cut trees and clear land whenever and however they desire, resulting in the commercial and traffic mess we have in Lacey now. Lacey has no "downtown" appeal or sense of community because Lacey was built willy-nilly at the whim of contractors, with no central planning or sense of serving the citizens' needs first. Why do we need more and more warehouses while we keep losing woodlands? This Council permit change is the first step in the right direction.
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