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Montgomery board approves $27,300 fee-in-lieu for trees at R & L Carriers site
Summary
The Village Board approved Resolution 2025-016 allowing R & L Carriers to pay a $27,300 fee instead of planting 78 required replacement trees after site constraints limited on-site planting to 22 trees.
The Village of Montgomery Board on a 5-0 vote approved Resolution 2025-016 on a fee-in-lieu request from R & L Carriers for tree replacement at its property at 2100 Rochester Drive.
Director Apt. told trustees that R & L Carriers submitted a final landscape plan showing 100 replacement trees were required under the village’s unified development ordinance but that only 22 additional trees could be accommodated on the site. Director Apt. said that left 78 trees the company could not provide and that, per the fee schedule set with the village arborist, the fee is $350 per tree, totaling $27,300. The resolution would codify the fee-in-lieu and allow the company to make payment when ready to apply for a building permit.
The fee was described by staff as going into a specific replacement-tree account (a tree fee-in-lieu account for parkway and other replacement projects), not the general fund. Trustee Dyer moved the motion to approve and Trustee Brzoska seconded; the board then took a roll call and recorded the motion as carrying 5-0.
The item was presented as a formal vote; no further conditions or amendments were recorded in the meeting transcript. The board’s action implements an existing village mechanism in the Unified Development Ordinance to accept payment in lieu of on-site tree replacement when site conditions prevent planting.
Future administrative steps noted in the staff presentation: the payment would be collected prior to issuance of the building permit and placed in the dedicated tree account to fund future planting projects when and where the village determines appropriate.
