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Approved 12.4.24 will not do that for you. You cannot pay; this is not a stream identification. The county does not 1040 have a fee for this. You need to do it yourself. 1041 1042 Charity Kirk: So, what is the downside of keeping it at 1 foot, again? What's the oof? 1043 1044 Cy Stober: It's there's more trees. There are more trees that are smaller. 1045 1046 Charity Kirk: But the developer is supposed to mark them on the map. 1047 1048 Cy Stober: Yes. 1049 1050 Charity Kirk: So, what work is needed from the planning department? 1051 1052 Cy Stober: We trust, but we verify. 1053 1054 Charity Kirk: And how have you found the verification? How off is it? 1055 1056 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 1057 fine in either way. We will do what the county needs us to do. It is not a major obstacle to land 1058 use, and it just is more time intensive to keep it as it is, and that's fine. 1059 1060 Charity Kirk: And if we allowed it to be 24 inches, what do you see as the onsite effect on the ground? Not of 1061 the counting that you have to do but – 1062 1063 Cy Stober: You'll have greater clearance, and you'll get less credit for tree preservation, so you'll need to 1064 preserve more open space in order to get the preservation credit, so you could, we could achieve 1065 more open space preservation because we're crediting less. But you could end up with greater 1066 clearance as a result because folks may say I just don't want to deal with this, and just I'm going to 1067 clear it and replant. You could go either way. 1068 1069 Marilyn Carter: Given our climate action plan has explicitly set some goals for planting trees in different parts of 1070 the county, I would support maintaining it as it is and the point that Lamar brought up. 1071 1072 Chris Johnston: And I apologize; I've read this. So, in that same one, No. 8 there, I'm just having a hard time 1073 understanding and I need clarity. So, if the vegetation is removed from any reason other than in 1074 accordance with the approved landscape and tree preservation plan, the dimensions of the buffer 1075 within the impacted area shall be increased by 50 percent, and the number of required plantings 1076 shall be increased by 50 percent. I want to better understand, "The number of required plantings 1077 shall be increased by 50 percent." Where is that? Is that within the entire parcel? Is that within 1078 that particular impacted area? Like is that tied in with that? I just want to better understand what 1079 that means, just as a layman. 1080 1081 Cy Stober: The current interpretation is that it is in the impacted area and immediately adjacent areas. 1082 Particularly in the regulated area. 1083 1084 Chris Johnston: So, within that regulated area, within that impacted area, not only are we increasing the size by 50 1085 percent, but we're also increasing the number of plantings by 50 percent. 1086 1087 Cy Stober: More the latter. We don't increase, say, if you have a 65-foot stream buffer, we don't add 50 1088 percent to that stream buffer width. And we add 50 percent more plantings, and we have to also 1089 ensure that the drip lines are protected, so we frequently do exceed the buffer width, but the 1090 geometry is more about, or the math is more about, replanting at 50 percent greater than what 1091 was cleared. 1092 1093