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year since they knocked on the doors and wanted us to sign an easement to get us to agree to tear all those trees down,” Capes says. The fight over the trees became more complex because the community association owns the property in question. “Every other private homeowner we
parties couldn’t reach an agreement. “It was a very long negotiation and I did my very best to come up with some funding to go back in and do some landscaping and clean up behind us,” he says. “But it was just a tough negotiation. They were very much concerned that it was going to affect their values and the aesthetics of the neighborhood.” Springlakes Community Association President John Capes
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came to an agreement with,” Allen says, indicating the easements they obtained along the stream before and after the lake. “The homeowners association was very reluctant to sell.” Capes alleges that it’s that reluctance to deal with the county that caused the deterioration in the relationship. “It became a vendetta,” Capes says. “It was personal with a couple of the Columbia County people, because they didn’t like the fact we held up the project and wouldn’t agree to do it, and they had to go through eminent domain. I was in those last two meetings, and it was almost like ‘in your face.’” Allen is also disappointed that the two
Those are fears, he says, that he doesn’t share. “There are some people in the neighborhood who think tearing the trees down de-beautifies the area and might hurt their property values,” he says. “But I don’t feel that way. I think that when it’s all said and done it will be a good-looking project that’s going to help people.” Capes, however, envisions an unsightly disaster that will look similar to the lake behind Mullins Crossing shopping center, which is an undulating landscape built of white bricks with holes in them similar to the articulated blocks Clayton has planned for Springlakes. V. 22 | NO. 47