AFFTON (KMOX) - A groundbreaking in St. Louis County this week for a new home development has some neighbors nearby missing the way things were.
More than 180 homes are planned on unused land in the southern part of Resurrection Cemetery in Affton. The developer says no bodies were buried under the land they're using. Earthmovers have already torn down some of the woods in the 70-acre site.
Some neighbors are upset.
"It's not good. It's bad that the trees are gone, but it will be good that it's a good place for families to live," Janet Casey says. "I'll miss the woods and wildlife terribly.
Lisa Green can see it all from her kitchen window.
"It's heartbreaking actually. It's devastation, I mean, you can see the wildlife out there looking for their homes," Green says. "It's heartbreaking to watch."
But another neighbor, Randall Covington, says he won't miss the deer that would come out of the woods and eat in his yard.
"They're a big pest. They're like somebody had their goats sprung loose," Covington says. "I had trees eaten by them."
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The developer, McKelvey Homes, says there will be a "buffer zone" of trees and shrubs planted between the existing neighborhood and the subdivision. The development will feature two-to-four bedroom homes starting in the "upper 300s" that will be ready early next year.
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