SoCal gets a Space Shuttle, and a parade!

[innerSpaceman]

The City of Los Angeles did not ask ANYONE to see if they could remove the trees. Far from it, a city attorney told the fine folks at the Science Center to LIE and apply for a house-moving permit, which are easily granted to remove a tree or two, instead of the actual permit they needed for moving a freaking Space Shuttle, which would have required far more red tape to remove 450 trees - and rightly so!!

A company which was hired by the Science Center to do a survey also fraudulently said all 450 trees were sick, and of course that turned out to be completely false.

Meanwhile, in all the reporting I've seen on this (and I've seen a lot), nowhere have I seen anything about the replacement trees being mature specimens.