Neighborhood Rises up en Masse as Beloved Self-Maintained Patch Must Make Way for 'Ugly' Electrical Box: 'We Won't Give Up'

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An idyllic patch of greenery measuring barely ten square meters is causing a stir in Haarlem's Vogelenwijk. The municipality wants to place a soulless transformer box in front of the door of 94-year-old Bert and his 86-year-old wife Annelies, where beautiful flowers and trees currently grow. Neighbor René personally maintains the small flowerbed: "But the whole neighborhood helps to keep it this beautiful."