respect • honesty • empathy • humility
There’s pizza & beer
at the 5th Street Public Market!
Traditional hearth-baked pizza made with only the best local ingredients
Whole pies to go or to stay & four daily pies by the slice
Stella Artois & Laurelwood on tap
ARTISAN BAKERY s WINE BAR s HOUSEMADE ICE CREAM s CATERING
GIFTS & ACCESSORIES s DELI s WINE BAR s SPECIALTY FOODS s ESPRESSO
9am-8pm Monday-Saturday s
10 DECEMBER 21, 2006
9am-6pm Sunday
THOMAS KAYE, INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ECOLOGY
T R A D I T I O N A L VA L U E S
CONTEMPORARY CARE
WITH
Wayside aster
Amazon Creek headwaters off Nectar Way
and Dillard Road.
Developer Joe Green’s attorney, Mark
Hoyt, took the first hour to pump the pro-
posed subdivision as an ecologically sensi-
tive design that will leave almost half of
the property undeveloped, clustering 113
homes on low-quality habitat while pro-
tecting stream corridors and steep slopes.
“We want to preserve the site as naturally
as possible,” he said.
Then experts hired by Southeast
Neighbors did their best to erode Hoyt’s
testimony, arguing that the subdivision
would compromise homeowner safety,
sensitive wildlife habitat and Amazon
Creek water quality. Southeast Neighbors
President Kevin Matthews presented a
slide show with aerial photographs illus-
trating what he claims are
unstable soils. Geologists
Gunnar Schlieder and
Michael James confirmed
that soil is already “creep-
ing” on Green’s develop-
ment site, and the potential
for landslides is high.
Hydrologist Al Johnson
testified that water on the
site contains unacceptable
levels of arsenic, and that
any large-scale soil distur-
bance would likely in-
crease
those
levels.
Amazon Creek already ex-
ceeds the maximum arsenic
concentration permitted
under the federal Clean
Water Act.
The site is home to sensitive and threat-
ened species such as pileated woodpeck-
ers, red-legged frogs and wayside aster.
Neighbors have been fighting the develop-
ment for more than two years; before that,
the city twice fumbled opportunities to buy
the property and preserve it as parkland.
Hearings official Ann Corcoran Briggs
will make her ruling by Feb. 2.
— Kera Abraham
U.S. DEATHS
NEAR 3,000
Another landmark number is approach-
ing as the number of U.S. soldiers killed in
Iraq approaches 3,000. This week the total