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Planning board approves tree-removal plan, allowing commercial infrastructure at Madera site with off-site mitigation
Summary
The Planning & Zoning Board approved a Conservation Overlay Zone development allowing removal of several trees on two commercial parcels adjacent to U.S. 1 North, after the developer presented a mitigation strategy that moves planting credits to common-area infrastructure and adds tree wells and fencing for screening.
The St. Augustine Planning & Zoning Board on Wednesday approved PZB202053, a Conservation Overlay Zone development request allowing significant tree impacts on two commercial parcels at the Madera/Montero project along U.S. 1 North, provided the developer implements the mitigation plan presented at the hearing.
The developer’s team said site constraints — areas requiring arsenic remediation and areas of fill that must be raised for utilities and stormwater — make removal of some large trees unavoidable. Developer representatives showed maps identifying Tree Protection Areas 1 and 2, arsenic remediation zones and fill depths up to about 6 feet in places; they said most significant canopy loss results from those remediation and fill demands.
Dominion Engineering president William Shaffer and landscape architect Brett Goddard presented…
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