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St. Andrews removes lawn from public land, yet to demolish buildings city says must go

An international school began work has begun demolishing a portion of developments city officials have said were built illegally on public land.

Eight months after local officials ordered St. Andrews International School to remove structures erected atop public land, workers today were seen uprooting a green lawn there, though there was no indication that work had begun to remove any of the encroaching campus buildings.

A neighbor who has campaigned for the school to return the public land said it didn’t look like the school was doing what it had been ordered.

“From what I see right now, the school is not doing enough,” Mayta Lerttamrab said. “The waterway [and] public space is much larger than what is being done. I don’t know what they are preparing to do for the buildings that remain undemolished, but I do know that the soccer field used to have a…

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