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12-20-2017, 07:23 AM
Long ago, these trees were planted for racist reasons, neighbors say. Now they want them gone
IN PALM SPRINGS, A ROW OF TAMARISK TREES SEPARATES THE CROSSLEY TRACT, A HISTORICALLY BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD, FROM A CITY GOLF COURSE.
Along the 14th fairway of Palm Springs' Tahquitz Creek Golf Course stands a long row of tamarisk trees, a 50-foot-tall wall of dense foliage seen nowhere else on the course. This species of tree, which guzzles water and leaves large deposits of salt, is so invasive that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has categorized it as a pest.
But residents living for decades on the other side of this thicket, in the Lawrence Crossley neighborhood, see the tamarisks as something far worse than a horticultural nuisance. They see the trees as an enduring symbol of racism and inequality – and they want them removed by the city of Palm Springs, which owns the golf course.
http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/local/palm-springs/2017/09/28/palm-springs-african-americans-think-trees-help-segregate/574894001/
Update:
At an informal meeting with neighborhood residents Sunday, Mayor Robert Moon, council member J.R. Roberts and other city officials promised residents they would remove the trees and a chain link fence along the Crossley Tract property lines as soon as possible.
http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/local/palm-springs/2017/12/18/palm-springs-remove-trees-blocking-historically-black-area-city-golf-course/961478001/
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The only reason for low property values in the "Historically Black Neighborhood" that the virtue-signalers at the Desert Sun paper can imagine is some trees and a fence. I think there may be another reason...
Anyway, I propose to monitor the fate of this golf course following the removal of the barrier. And, to track property values in the area. One could reasonably predict no increase in property values in the Historically Black Neighborhood, and declning property values elsewhere around the golf course. Not to mention crime and theft on the course, but that might not get reported. But, property values don't lie.
Related. The principle of Chesterton's Fence: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence
IN PALM SPRINGS, A ROW OF TAMARISK TREES SEPARATES THE CROSSLEY TRACT, A HISTORICALLY BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD, FROM A CITY GOLF COURSE.
Along the 14th fairway of Palm Springs' Tahquitz Creek Golf Course stands a long row of tamarisk trees, a 50-foot-tall wall of dense foliage seen nowhere else on the course. This species of tree, which guzzles water and leaves large deposits of salt, is so invasive that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has categorized it as a pest.
But residents living for decades on the other side of this thicket, in the Lawrence Crossley neighborhood, see the tamarisks as something far worse than a horticultural nuisance. They see the trees as an enduring symbol of racism and inequality – and they want them removed by the city of Palm Springs, which owns the golf course.
http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/local/palm-springs/2017/09/28/palm-springs-african-americans-think-trees-help-segregate/574894001/
Update:
At an informal meeting with neighborhood residents Sunday, Mayor Robert Moon, council member J.R. Roberts and other city officials promised residents they would remove the trees and a chain link fence along the Crossley Tract property lines as soon as possible.
http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/local/palm-springs/2017/12/18/palm-springs-remove-trees-blocking-historically-black-area-city-golf-course/961478001/
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The only reason for low property values in the "Historically Black Neighborhood" that the virtue-signalers at the Desert Sun paper can imagine is some trees and a fence. I think there may be another reason...
Anyway, I propose to monitor the fate of this golf course following the removal of the barrier. And, to track property values in the area. One could reasonably predict no increase in property values in the Historically Black Neighborhood, and declning property values elsewhere around the golf course. Not to mention crime and theft on the course, but that might not get reported. But, property values don't lie.
Related. The principle of Chesterton's Fence: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence