when is a decision a decision?

well...........lookin' at planning board minutes, something interesting occurs. mi homies from pulte get approval to build out sandtrap ct, announce a new and separate hoa and, God forgive them plan to plant...hold on to your children..........street trees!

yes, their plan includes the same kind of trees in the same kind of placement as linkside. let me describe, from tunison & smith the kind of devastation were talkin about here...

- street trees absolutely cannot, cannot, cannot be planted in grass strips less than 5' wide!
- street trees will kill other trees within 20' of their trunk
- street trees will obliterate concrete sidewalks
- street trees will destroy driveways within 7'
- street trees cause global warming (okay, the engineers didn't say that)

despite looking around to see that trees are planted just like this all over the place, including very old trees right next to stone fences, buildings, driveways and sidewalks, one street in the development won't get them. Thank God the residents of clubhouse lane are spared the kind of devastation that surely will occur on linkside, on sandtrap and on thousands of other streets in New England. best yet, I don't know how God plans to prevent deforestation, since Garrett Tunison says trees must, must, must be 20' apart to survive. hhhmmmm.....doesn't seem to make a diffeence in forests.......... well, we gotta trust engineers, right?

at any rate, from looking at the attendance at the PB meeting, it looks to me like the very same tight little group who saved clubhouse lane from sure tree-caused devastation sat on their hands when Pulte announce plans to plant trees exactly as they opposed on clubhouse lane.

I don't get it. how does a leader justify making the same decision 2 ways? are the physics of plant science different on clubhouse lane?

maybe someone out there can make sense of this - any takers?