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Benbrook commission approves payment-in-lieu for Ridgeley Country Club tree removals
Summary
The Benbrook Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5-0 Nov. 13 to approve an alternative mitigation plan allowing Ridgeley Country Club to pay into the city tree fund instead of replanting 17 trees removed for a golf-course renovation; staff said the removal is a small share of the site's canopy.
The Benbrook Planning and Zoning Commission on Nov. 13 approved an alternative tree mitigation plan allowing Ridgeley Country Club to pay in lieu of replanting 17 trees as part of a South Course renovation.
Britney Crenshaw of JBI Partners, representing Ridgeley Country Club, told the commission the renovation is intended to "enhance drainage, turf health, and player safety" and that the work would require removal of 17 trees totaling about 486 caliper inches. Under Benbrook's mitigation rules the project would otherwise replant 50% of the removed caliper inches and pay the remaining 50% into the city's tree fund; Crenshaw said that would equate to roughly 122 two-inch trees (or 41…
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