‘Impossible fight’: A Tampa neighborhood’s grassroots effort to save its wetlands
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Inside a sparsely attended Hillsborough County meeting chamber in August, a loud buzzer went off. Hank Cramer’s 10 minutes were up. “That’s a shame,” he told county commissioners before taking his seat. “Thank you. ” A few minutes later, the board approved the destruction of a wetland in Cramer’s Tampa neighborhood.
It marked the end of a local grassroots effort to save the wetlands, as community members expressed their concerns about the environmental implications of such a decision.