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Tree board hears resident concerns about lot clearing, discusses code updates and new urban-forest planner
Summary
A resident raised concerns about developers clearing lots and planting non-native trees; the board discussed education, a revised tree list that highlights—but does not mandate—native replacements, adjustments to the exceptional-tree protections, and introduced the city's new urban-forest planner, Sam Cole.
A resident urged the Lake Forest Park Tree Board to strengthen public education and to discourage wholesale lot clearing and the replacement of large native trees with smaller, nonnative species. "Most of the new development seems to be clearing entire lots, and I don't really understand the carte blanche to sort of clear the entire lot and then replant with small kind of not equivalent plants," the resident said during public comment.
Board members and the council liaison discussed the city's existing code provisions and the board's pending updates to the tree list. City Council liaison Larry Goldman said the current tree code requires native species to be…
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