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26 <br /> DRAFT <br /> 1040 will not do that for you. You cannot pay; this is not a stream identification. The county does not <br /> 1041 have a fee for this. You need to do it yourself. <br /> 1042 <br /> 1043 Charity Kirk: So,what is the downside of keeping it at 1 foot, again? What's the oof? <br /> 1044 <br /> 1045 Cy Stober: It's there's more trees. There are more trees that are smaller. <br /> 1046 <br /> 1047 Charity Kirk: But the developer is supposed to mark them on the map. <br /> 1048 <br /> 1049 Cy Stober: Yes. <br /> 1050 <br /> 1051 Charity Kirk: So,what work is needed from the planning department? <br /> 1052 <br /> 1053 Cy Stober: We trust, but we verify. <br /> 1054 <br /> 1055 Charity Kirk: And how have you found the verification? How off is it? <br /> 1056 <br /> 1057 Cy Stober: Again, it's whether it's a full day's work or it's a couple hours work. That's the difference, but it's <br /> 1058 fine in either way. We will do what the county needs us to do. It is not a major obstacle to land <br /> 1059 use, and it just is more time intensive to keep it as it is, and that's fine. <br /> 1060 <br /> 1061 Charity Kirk: And if we allowed it to be 24 inches,what do you see as the onsite effect on the ground? Not of <br /> 1062 the counting that you have to do but— <br /> 1063 <br /> 1064 Cy Stober: You'll have greater clearance,and you'll get less credit for tree preservation, so you'll need to <br /> 1065 preserve more open space in order to get the preservation credit, so you could,we could achieve <br /> 1066 more open space preservation because we're crediting less. But you could end up with greater <br /> 1067 clearance as a result because folks may say I just don't want to deal with this, and just I'm going to <br /> 1068 clear it and replant. You could go either way. <br /> 1069 <br /> 1070 Marilyn Carter: Given our climate action plan has explicitly set some goals for planting trees in different parts of <br /> 1071 the county, I would support maintaining it as it is and the point that Lamar brought up. <br /> 1072 <br /> 1073 Chris Johnston: And I apologize; I've read this. So, in that same one, No. 8 there, I'm just having a hard time <br /> 1074 understanding and I need clarity. So, if the vegetation is removed from any reason other than in <br /> 1075 accordance with the approved landscape and tree preservation plan,the dimensions of the buffer <br /> 1076 within the impacted area shall be increased by 50 percent, and the number of required plantings <br /> 1077 shall be increased by 50 percent. I want to better understand, "The number of required plantings <br /> 1078 shall be increased by 50 percent." Where is that? Is that within the entire parcel? Is that within <br /> 1079 that particular impacted area? Like is that tied in with that? I just want to better understand what <br /> 1080 that means,just as a layman. <br /> 1081 <br /> 1082 Cy Stober: The current interpretation is that it is in the impacted area and immediately adjacent areas. <br /> 1083 Particularly in the regulated area. <br /> 1084 <br /> 1085 Chris Johnston: So,within that regulated area,within that impacted area, not only are we increasing the size by 50 <br /> 1086 percent, but we're also increasing the number of plantings by 50 percent. <br /> 1087 <br /> 1088 Cy Stober: More the latter. We don't increase,say, if you have a 65-foot stream buffer,we don't add 50 <br /> 1089 percent to that stream buffer width. And we add 50 percent more plantings, and we have to also <br /> 1090 ensure that the drip lines are protected, so we frequently do exceed the buffer width, but the <br /> 1091 geometry is more about, or the math is more about, replanting at 50 percent greater than what <br /> 1092 was cleared. <br /> 1093 <br />