December 04, 2005
Save the Fairies!
PreserveLA dedicates the following to anyone that has ever struggled with the sometime difficulties of local design review or such environmental regulations as Section 106, CEQA, or NEPA. Just remember, it could be worse...
Fairies stop developers' bulldozers in their tracks
Villagers who protested that a new housing estate would "harm the fairies" living in their midst have forced a property company to scrap its building plans and start again..."
Marcus Salter, head of Genesis Properties, estimates that the small colony of fairies believed to live beneath a rock in St Fillans, Perthshire, has cost him ?15,000. His first notice of the residential sensibilities of the netherworld came as his diggers moved on to a site on the outskirts of the village, which crowns the easterly shore of Loch Earn.
He said: "A neighbour came over shouting, 'Don't move that rock. You'll kill the fairies'." The rock protruded from the centre of a gently shelving field, edged by the steep slopes of Dundurn mountain, where in the sixth century the Celtic missionary St Fillan set up camp and attempted to convert the Picts from the pagan darkness of superstition.
For the rest of this article, visit the London Times online at:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1881612,00.html
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