This Blog post has been edited, October, 2018, with more detail, due to mischaracterizations of this story, making the rounds, in this election cycle. I first got involved in civic work around 2010, and not unlike many others, because something was going to happen next door. The Normandy Shopping Center was going to be redeveloped into a mixed use center with a large apartment building in the back. The problem we had was that, although the developer said they would plant a tr