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Church Fined For Clearing Trees10-22-07 | News
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Church Fined For Clearing Trees




Faith Viera Lutheran Church in Florida was fined $1,000 for clearing pine trees without a permit. In addition to the fine, church officials must work with its neighbors on a landscaping plan for the site.

A Brevard County, Fla. special magistrate has fined Faith Viera Lutheran Church $1,000 for clearing pine trees from several acres of land without a permit and ordered the church to draw up a new landscaping plan, with some help from their angry neighbors.

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They say the damage that bulldozers inflicted when the wetlands were cleared earlier this year has made the church expansion anything but a blessing to them.

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Capps ruled that the church must come up with a new landscaping plan?EUR??,,????'?????<

The county will also force the church to get a performance bond of about $850 per tree for about 50 to 70 trees. That?EUR??,,????'?????<

The church had faced $6,000 in fines?EUR??,,????'?????<

Source: Florida Today

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