The woman at the podium listed off a dozen or so species of songbirds that delight her young daughters by coming to their backyard feeder – tufted titmice, chickadees, wrens, finches and buntings among them. “I’m speaking on behalf of the birds that will lose their homes on the land behind our house” on Mather Street, Lisa Trahan told the Kyle City Council on Oct. 15.
“I also speak on behalf of my children, theirs is the generation that will confront the real problems of overdevelopment,” she continued, before lifting her young daughter Macy to the microphone. “There are cows back there …. And they’re like cutting down the trees,” the little girl said.
Those emotional remarks followed similar statements by a longer-time resident of the same neighborhood as council was poised to consider changing the zoning on 7.3 acres along Rebel Drive from retail services to single family residential.
