Developers don't like saving trees; it forces them to adjust the lot grading and road patterns for tree preservation rather than efficiency. The installation of services and construction disrupts the water table and the trees sometimes die anyways. Purchasers complain that crap from the trees is sticking to their cars. It is just easier for everyone to flatten them and stick in some cheap twig.
Now the State of Virginia is going to insist that developers preserve "some percentage" of their parcel's original trees. Environmentalists tell the Washington Post that "Losing a big tree mea...
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