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Planning and Zoning asks Environmental Advisory Board to distill tree ordinance changes into bullet points
Summary
The board asked the Environmental Advisory Board to produce concise bullet points clarifying proposed tree- and landscape-ordinance changes, and voted to request a succinct list so planners can draft code language with fewer ambiguities.
Members of the Melbourne Beach Planning and Zoning Board on Aug. 5 asked the Environmental Advisory Board (EAB) to condense its proposed changes to the town's tree and landscape rules into a short list of specific requests so the planning board can evaluate and, if appropriate, incorporate them into the land-development code.
Why it matters: The EAB's draft covers tree replacement, minimum plantings, arborist review and penalties for unauthorized removal of canopy trees. Board members said the draft as written mixes residential and commercial…
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