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Resident urges review of tree-mitigation rules as council adopts Tree Mitigation Trust Fund ordinance
Summary
A Loxahatchee Groves resident called the town—ode—ankrupting landowners while the council adopted an ordinance creating a Tree Mitigation Trust Fund and a Dec. 13 tree giveaway for landowners, 5-0.
Virginia Standish, a resident who identified herself as living on North Road, told the Town Council on Oct. 7 that the town—ode—or tree mitigation is imposing excessive fees and producing perverse incentives. Standish said a landowner who chose not to clear-cut a property faced mitigation bills ranging—by the example she gave—from about $47,000 up to roughly $166,000 and that the mitigation formula forces owners to replace large trees with large numbers of small saplings.
Standish said the fee schedule creates a risk that owners will accept large mitigation charges or sell to buyers who take an agricultural exemption and clear the parcel, and that the town—nforcement and public permit records are inconsistent. "It…
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