Louise S. McGehee School this week has been defending a plan to cut down several large oak trees so that it can build a bigger gymnasium on its Garden District campus after some local residents and school alumni raised objections.
The four oak trees on the all-girls school’s campus are being removed to make way for a long-planned campus renovation approved by the city, school leaders said in a message to families this week. The decision to cut down the trees was made after “exhausting all other options,” including a search for an off-campus property to house the new four-story athletic facility, school leadership said in a separate statement to media…