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Board reviews when tree surveys should be required for subdivisions
Summary
Board members discussed whether to require timber-stand/tree-cutting surveys for smaller subdivision applications and considered adding explicit triggers and checklist prompts for waivers and surveys (a 25% clearing threshold was debated).
Members reviewed how the town's subdivision and site-plan regulations currently address tree-cutting surveys and whether thresholds for requiring a timber specialist should be clarified.
The chair said the town has not universally required a tree-cutting survey except for large subdivisions and that the board could consider adding clearer triggers or putting the requirement on the site-plan checklist. One member suggested a 25% clearing threshold could serve as a trigger for more detailed review and that waivers should be prompted formally to make neighbors aware.
The board agreed staff should identify where the site-plan checklist could prompt applicants to request a waiver and to document thresholds so that the public and applicants understand when a survey is necessary.
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