One Bainbridge resident who opposes the controversial shopping development to be built at High School Road and Highway 305 has taken to the trees.

Bainbridge High School graduate Chiara D’Angelo is sitting 70 feet up on a platform roped to an evergreen tree in a protest that started early Monday morning.

Organizers of the tree sit said it’s one of the 800 trees planned to be cut down for the shopping center. The tree sit — the first since in the state since 1999, organizers said — followed a candlelight vigil and demonstration against the development project Saturday night.

“A new shopping center is wholly unnecessary on Bainbridge,” said Kent Bridwell, the lead organizer behind a boycott pledge that began last month.

“Too many local businesses have already failed and there are vacant storefronts everywhere,” he said.

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