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Planning Commission backs repeal and replacement of Chapter 22 to align with state forest rules
Summary
The Planning Commission recommended that the mayor and city council introduce and consider a full repeal-and-replace of Chapter 22 (trees and forest conservation) to match updates in the State Forest Conservation Act, including a specimen-tree definition set at 24 inches and revised mitigation/reforestation ratios to ease impacts on housing projects.
Nancy Shum, the city's Environmental Services Division Chief, presented a proposal on March 4 to repeal and replace Chapter 22 of the Gaithersburg code to align the city's tree and forest conservation rules with recent State Forest Conservation Act updates.
Shum said the draft includes multiple definitional changes to make the code and the city tree manual consistent. She described the specimen-tree definition as a focal point: the city tree manual designates specimen…
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