Is there anything that shouts Tallahassee more than our love for trees? It doesn’t matter if they’re patriarch live oaks, fragrant southern magnolias, or stately pines; doesn’t matter if they’re big or small, young or old; it doesn’t matter if they’re shading a canopy road, gracing an open field, or foresting a neighborhood. We love our trees.
I place myself within the tens of thousands of tree lovers. That sense of place appreciation for trees made me sensitive to noticing another community love: our neighborhoods. I got an earful of that love at the recent city and county commissions meetings on the Comprehensive Plan updates.
It doesn’t matter about the in-town neighborhood: Frenchtown, Lafayette Park, Griffin Heights, Indianhead, Los Robles, and others. They were big and small; in-town and near-town; low-, middle-, and high-income…