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Staff: tree‑mitigation fees and some development fees were waived under the project’s Chapter 380 agreement
Summary
City staff said tree‑mitigation fees (noted in the code as a per‑inch fee) and other development fees have been waived for this project under a Chapter 380 agreement; landscape plans and mitigation credits are expected in future Phase 2 submissions.
A staff member described how tree removal is handled for site development: the code requires a tree mitigation fee (stated at $150 per inch in the session) and developers typically submit a tree survey and mitigation plan. For this project, staff said tree mitigation fees and certain development fees were waived as part of a Chapter 380 development agreement that made other concessions to make the project viable.
"There's a fee for tree mitigations, dollars 150 an inch," a staff member said, and added that the project submitted a tree survey and that mitigation credits and future landscaping will be addressed in Phase 2 submittals. Staff also noted that some fees are commonly waived under negotiated development agreements and that a running account of mitigation fees exists across the city.
Residents asked whether trees removed would be put back and how mitigation funds are used; staff replied that replanting and mitigation will be addressed as part of the landscape plans that are still pending Phase 2 engineering submissions and that any waived fees were part of the negotiated development agreement.
