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Virginia real estate developers restricted from removing trees

Posted on March 10, 2008 | Filed Under Commercial Real Estate, Real Estate News 

Last week Virginia Governor Tim Kaine signed a new bill into law that will require Northern Virginia real estate developers to preserve a specified percentage of original trees on the land they intend to develop. The bill is intended to help with air quality improvement with additional benefits being preservation of wildlife habitat and storm water runoff filtering.

The law may not have much bite though in a much-needed area of Virginia. According to this story in the Washington Post, “The bill takes effect July 1, but local jurisdictions can choose whether to follow it.”

Treeless neighborhoods having a lasting impact according to Virginia McGuire who lives in Northern Virginia-

“I keep getting upset with my kids when they try to climb a tree,” said McGuire, who is also chair of Leesburg’s Environmental Advisory Commission. She’s worried about the trees being hurt. “You can’t spare any.”

“This was a farm, and there weren’t a lot of trees here, but there were trees here,” she said. “And there’s just nothing left.”

Another sign with a leaf motif announced the development’s name: Oaklawn.

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2 Responses to “Virginia real estate developers restricted from removing trees”

  1. steven on March 10th, 2008 2:28 pm

    So how do you feel about this Marty? I think it’s a good thing. Bring on the Carbon Neutral landscaping. :)

  2. Marty Martin on March 10th, 2008 2:39 pm

    I think it’s a great thing. I’m personally not a fan of over-regulating but unfortunately sometimes the government has to step in where common sense fails.

    Too many natural resources, farms and great swaths of land with and without trees are razed for cookie-cutter homes for folks who want to live in a suburban neighborhood “out in the country”. It doesn’t make sense to me. If you want to live in the country, then great, but leave the suburbs where they are…with trees.

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