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Tree Board questions climate-element targets, urges clearer treatment of trees and town-center heat-island strategies
Summary
Tree Board members queried greenhouse-gas reduction assumptions in the draft climate element, questioned the draft's treatment of tree loss and carbon uptake, and recommended clearer policy language on cooling and planting priorities for town-center and large paved areas.
Tree Board members spent substantial time reviewing the draft climate element of Lake Forest Park's comprehensive plan and raised several substantive comments they asked staff to forward as consolidated feedback to the planning process.
Members said some statewide or county-level greenhouse-gas reduction targets described in the draft appear aspirational and may be difficult for a small city to meet. A member urged tying any critique to the specific draft language. Several board members also questioned a draft passage that attributed a very small share of local emissions to tree loss; one member pointed to a prior local estimate that trees in the city sequester multiple thousands of tons of CO2…
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