Weast's Legacy: More Silver Spring Trees Coming Down

From the Friends of Sligo Creek website we learn that Superintendent Jerry Weast's plan to build a cell tower compound on the Sligo Middle School/Oakland Terrace kindergarten playground will require the removal of established trees. 


More established trees coming down on a public school site in Silver Spring.


From the plans for the construction of the cell phone tower at Sligo Middle School we learn:

Forest clearing for this telecommunications facility is approximately 3,567 square feet...

This is not forest clearing to build a school, this is forest clearing so that a commercial for-profit company can use public school land. 


Here are images of the types of trees that will be taken down at Sligo Middle School to make way for this commercial use of public school land.