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Carbondale Tree Board to form subcommittee to harmonize tree‑related codes
Summary
At its Oct. 16 meeting the Carbondale Tree Board agreed to pursue a project to reconcile inconsistent language across the tree board ordinance, the Carbondale Municipal Code and the town’s Unified Development Code and to form a public subcommittee to draft recommendations for trustees.
The Carbondale Tree Board on Oct. 16 agreed to pursue a project to identify and resolve inconsistent language across multiple town documents that govern trees and the public right of way, and to form a public subcommittee to develop recommendations for the Board of Trustees.
Tree board member Josh Crawford led a presentation describing three primary sources the board uses: the town’s Tree Board ordinance, the Carbondale Municipal Code and the Unified Development Code (now part of chapter 17 of the municipal code). Crawford said the materials are “spread across multiple documents” and that the public and designers need a single, clear source. “The message that we put out there to the public, to contractors, to people who work with trees specifically in the right of way, it needs to be very clear,” he said.
Why it matters: board members said inconsistent language has produced uncertainty about which plans the tree board reviews, when the board receives submissions and…
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