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Residents urge Sammamish commission to prioritize urban forest, park tree inventories and code updates
Summary
Three community members asked the commission to expand the city’s right-of-way tree study to parks, update tree codes, and consider emergency/stream buffer rules after recent storm and wildfire impacts.
Three Sammamish residents used the commission’s public-comment period Feb. 13 to press the city to move faster on urban-forest planning, tree-code updates and support for private landowners after recent storm damage.
Jan Bird said she reviewed the city’s right-of-way tree study and recommended producing a similar inventory and management recommendations for city parks, noting that parks contain most of Sammamish’s canopy and that recent storms removed large numbers of park…
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