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    Smart Growth Birds: El Paso neighborhood project fails poop test
    Smart Growth Birds: El Paso neighborhood project fails poop test
    Smart Growth Birds: El Paso neighborhood project fails poop test
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    Smart Growth Birds: El Paso neighborhood project fails poop test

    By Dan Bodine

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    An El Paso, Tx, retired judge's deal with God, promising to feed Smart Growth neighborhood birds in exchange for better personal health, runs afoul when neighbors complain about large amounts of bird poop causing health problems. Responding to a demand the feeder be removed probes the quintessence of the connection between God, an individual, and the environment.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDesert Mountain Enterprises
    Release dateFeb 20, 2014
    ISBN9781497732759
    Smart Growth Birds: El Paso neighborhood project fails poop test
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    Dan Bodine

    Dan Bodine is a retired Justice of the Peace from Presidio County in far West Texas now living with his wife, Noemi, and teen daughter, Maiya, in El Paso. Previously he spent 20 years in Texas newspapers as a writer, editor, and later, weekly publisher, and earned many writing awards. He is a veteran of the U.S Navy and earned a B.A. in Journalism from North Texas State University (now UNT), and a M.A. in Political Science from the University of Texas at Arlington.

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      Smart Growth Birds - Dan Bodine

      By Dan Bodine

      I. Grouchy Old Woman

      EL PASO, TX—There may be 65-75 thousand people shoehorned into the Las Tierras neighborhood on the far east side here, just off of Joe Battle Freeway and north of Zaragoza Road. By my country estimating.

      And God only knows how many birds are in it! They seem to be everywhere. The Rio Grande and a warm climate much of the year make this old city a birder's delight.

      But there's at least one less person feeding these birds now. Going into this new bird season. Me. That’s the story. My story. This is about why I started it. And why I stopped.

      A microcosm of a fault line, perhaps, in human behavior that rankles the files of urban planners everywhere. Do-gooders with missions from God can’t be squeezed into digital statistics.

      Oh, we forgot to include that fudge factor! is a common lament.

      A little tardy in getting this story out I am, perhaps. I took my feeder down after an angry confrontation with a neighbor in mid-summer, 2013. But with warmer weather ushering in Spring, 2014, and bird migration returning, it's still appropriate though.

      They have one less feeder to look to, is their reality.

      By people count, Las Tierras is the largest neighborhood in District 5. Thru email, District 5 Councilman Dr. Michiel Noe's office told me Feb. 13 the 2010 Census showed overall district population to be 111,000 people.

      Boundaries were redrawn later to move some of that to neighboring districts, but growth keeps mushrooming, too. Thus the Tierras remain a good chunk of a moving target.

      Las Tierras is one of those early-version, experimental neighborhoods designed to cut into urban sprawl with smarter ways of living, too. The new buzz word in urban jungles is efficient living.

      Most certainly I think that's a point worth mentioning. If men and women were kicked out of the Garden of Eden to stumble their way thru Life, even

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