CARROLLTON — Angry residents at the Villages of Greenway Park development want to know why their homeowners’ association cut down two dozen trees without any warning.

The HOA said the trees were mature and needed to go, but homeowner Barbara Hale does not agree. “I am mad,” she said. “I’m very disappointed. I feel like their position is extremely arrogant… extremely arrogant.”

Hale said she didn’t learn that 30 trees were coming down until Saturday morning; neither did more than 100 people who signed her petition to stop the cutting.

“They have done this in secret,” she said. “They have done it without input from the property owners.”  Read more: