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Planning board approves PUD amendment for 11 Garnett Avenue after tree‑relocation dispute
Summary
The board approved changes to a PUD to allow Ace Hardware’s owner to expand and formalize docks/warehouse space, accepting an amended tree‑mitigation plan after developers disclosed that five specimen live oaks prepared for relocation could not be saved.
The Planning & Zoning Board voted April 1 to recommend approval of a PUD text amendment and related changes for 11 Garnett Avenue — the parcel associated with the Ace Hardware store in the San Marco/Anastasia area — after developer representatives detailed efforts to relocate five specimen live oaks and presented a revised mitigation plan.
Why it matters: The project had been approved previously as part of a broader PUD, and tree relocation was an explicit part of earlier approvals. Developers said two of the five trees had fallen in storms and the remaining three were determined by arborists to be structurally compromised and unsafe. The board accepted a mitigation package…
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