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Pflugerville commission backs sending updated tree-care code to Planning & Zoning, debates expanded uses for mitigation fund
Summary
The commission approved transmitting a comprehensive rewrite of the public tree-protection code to Planning & Zoning. The package updates definitions, clarifies responsibilities, tightens prohibited activities, and proposes expanded uses of the tree mitigation fund — a point that drew commissioner questions about legal defensibility and use on nonpublic property.
The Pflugerville Parks & Recreation Commission on Aug. 21 voted to send a proposed rewrite of the city's public tree-protection code to the Planning & Zoning Commission for further review.
Staff said the code — last updated in 2012 — was reworked to provide clearer purpose and intent language, add definitions (including a defined "director" role), reduce some advisory-board responsibilities, require contractor standards, codify prohibited activities, and expand allowable uses of the tree mitigation fund. The proposed language draws on recommendations from the Texas Forest Service and some preamble language used by…
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