We are neighbors in East Fort Worth that want to encourage the City of Fort Worth to find a balance between development and the environment. There are various examples around Fort Worth showing the right balance between conservation and development.
Trees are important for mental health: (Beyer, K. M., Kaltenbach, A., Szabo, A., Bogar, S., Nieto, F. J., & Malecki, K. M. (2014). Exposure to neighborhood green space and mental health: evidence from the survey of the health of Wisconsin. International journal of environmental research and public health, 11(3), 3453-3472.)
Trees provide additional home value: (Anderson, L. M., & Cordell, H. K. (1988). Influence of trees on residential property values in Athens, Georgia (USA): A survey based on actual sales prices. Landscape and Urban Planning, 15(1-2), 153-164.)
Trees help urban air quality and health: (Nowak, D. J., Hirabayashi, S., Bodine, A., & Hoehn, R. (2013). Modeled PM2. 5 removal by trees in ten US cities and associated health effects. Environmental pollution, 178, 395-402.)
All this to say: People need homes AND trees, and should not have to choose between them.
Is it not melodramatic to speak of urban deforestation. Most people find time-lapse pictures of the Amazon showing the remorseless loss of trees very worrying. In cities like Fort Worth, we are starting from a much smaller number of trees, but we are still losing an alarming proportion every year. This is something shown very clearly in year-by-year aerial shots of DFW. Let’s not sit on our hands and watch as, for one ‘compromising’ reason after another, our neighborhood trees are gradually taken away.
Updates
May 1, 2021
The feedback from residents across the city underscores how deeply our community values the local environment. I am currently compiling your personal accounts to present alongside our formal proposal for better development standards.
May 1, 2021
The growth of this movement has exceeded my initial expectations. It is clear that the community values the preservation of our local greenery alongside necessary development.
Reached 100 supporters
May 1, 2021
76 Comments
You are destroying the ecosystem by destroying these beautiful trees. I live near here and since these developments have popped up it has caused major flooding and animals coming into our neighborhoods
I'm grateful the council recently adopted an urban forestry plan unanimously. To make it effective however, you will need to incorporate uncomfortably high fines to dissuade developers and others from trying to remove trees and ask for forgiveness later.
It’s shameful to knock down 100 year old trees. I live on a lot that has 200 post oaks. You can build houses and save the trees. In the past, houses were built around the trees.
When we moved to the area, it had horse farms and plenty of wooded areas. It was so quiet and peaceful. Now we have houses all over, the trees are rapidly going away, traffic is getting worse, and this is no longer an idyllic, peaceful, and quiet haven.
I agree you don't have to cut down 50 trees for a 3 foot sidewalk. They cut a whole field of trees by my house so they could put an access road to the railway repair center that will only be used once or twice every few months. ( There's an existing road on the other side)
What has already been done to this area should be illegal. We do not need anymore homes or apartments here. DONT "WOODHAVEN" OUR JOHN T WHITE AREA!
Stop with the deforestation of our natural resources!
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We are neighbors in East Fort Worth that want to encourage the City of Fort Worth to find a balance between development and the environment. There are various examples around Fort Worth showing the right balance between conservation and development.
Trees are important for mental health: (Beyer, K. M., Kaltenbach, A., Szabo, A., Bogar, S., Nieto, F. J., & Malecki, K. M. (2014). Exposure to neighborhood green space and mental health: evidence from the survey of the health of Wisconsin. International journal of environmental research and public health, 11(3), 3453-3472.)
Trees provide additional home value: (Anderson, L. M., & Cordell, H. K. (1988). Influence of trees on residential property values in Athens, Georgia (USA): A survey based on actual sales prices. Landscape and Urban Planning, 15(1-2), 153-164.)
Trees help urban air quality and health: (Nowak, D. J., Hirabayashi, S., Bodine, A., & Hoehn, R. (2013). Modeled PM2. 5 removal by trees in ten US cities and associated health effects. Environmental pollution, 178, 395-402.)
All this to say: People need homes AND trees, and should not have to choose between them.
Is it not melodramatic to speak of urban deforestation. Most people find time-lapse pictures of the Amazon showing the remorseless loss of trees very worrying. In cities like Fort Worth, we are starting from a much smaller number of trees, but we are still losing an alarming proportion every year. This is something shown very clearly in year-by-year aerial shots of DFW. Let’s not sit on our hands and watch as, for one ‘compromising’ reason after another, our neighborhood trees are gradually taken away.
Updates
May 1, 2021
The feedback from residents across the city underscores how deeply our community values the local environment. I am currently compiling your personal accounts to present alongside our formal proposal for better development standards.
May 1, 2021
The growth of this movement has exceeded my initial expectations. It is clear that the community values the preservation of our local greenery alongside necessary development.
Reached 100 supporters
May 1, 2021
76 Comments
I grew up in east Fort Worth and the clear cutting for housing developments is destroying otherwise healthy trees that could be built around. It takes decades for trees to reach the development that many of these healthy trees were at.
You are destroying the ecosystem by destroying these beautiful trees. I live near here and since these developments have popped up it has caused major flooding and animals coming into our neighborhoods
I'm grateful the council recently adopted an urban forestry plan unanimously. To make it effective however, you will need to incorporate uncomfortably high fines to dissuade developers and others from trying to remove trees and ask for forgiveness later.
It’s shameful to knock down 100 year old trees. I live on a lot that has 200 post oaks. You can build houses and save the trees. In the past, houses were built around the trees.
When we moved to the area, it had horse farms and plenty of wooded areas. It was so quiet and peaceful. Now we have houses all over, the trees are rapidly going away, traffic is getting worse, and this is no longer an idyllic, peaceful, and quiet haven.
I agree you don't have to cut down 50 trees for a 3 foot sidewalk. They cut a whole field of trees by my house so they could put an access road to the railway repair center that will only be used once or twice every few months. ( There's an existing road on the other side)
What has already been done to this area should be illegal. We do not need anymore homes or apartments here. DONT "WOODHAVEN" OUR JOHN T WHITE AREA!
Stop with the deforestation of our natural resources!
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I grew up in east Fort Worth and the clear cutting for housing developments is destroying otherwise healthy trees that could be built around. It takes decades for trees to reach the development that many of these healthy trees were at.