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Planning & Zoning approves variance so Caroline Court can proceed while city rewrites tree rules
Summary
The commission approved a variance to waive a required tree-assessment deliverable for the Caroline Court (formerly Villages of Montgomery) development, citing a claimed $120,000 assessment burden, and directed city council and engineers to clarify reforestation requirements before final approvals.
The Montgomery Planning & Zoning Commission on the meeting approved a variance allowing developer Parkside Capital to proceed with preliminary work on the Caroline Court subdivision while the city and its engineers revise unclear tree-preservation rules.
City staff told the commission the developer had asked for relief from a required tree assessment because of what the developer described as a roughly $120,000 cost to survey, photograph and inventory trees above a specified caliber across the site. City staff said the current chapter 78 ordinance does not include clear mitigation…
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