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191 <br /> Approved 10.1.25 <br /> 1262 there's also secondary indicators of hydrology higher up than just standing water. Secondary <br /> 1263 indicators meaning soil color. <br /> 1264 <br /> 1265 Beth Bronson: Moisture content. <br /> 1266 <br /> 1267 Ward Marotti: I'm sorry? <br /> 1268 <br /> 1269 Beth Bronson: Moisture content? <br /> 1270 <br /> 1271 Next Speaker: Yeah, moisture content as well as root oxidization of live root paths, and there's quite a few <br /> 1272 different secondary indicators of surface hydrology. <br /> 1273 <br /> 1274 Beth Bronson: They talk about the different components of the neighborhood, like the hardwoods, like the mature <br /> 1275 hardwoods, and then the recently ecological community. Is there going to be a prioritization on <br /> 1276 preserving the mature hardwoods. <br /> 1277 <br /> 1278 Ward Marotti: I believe a lot of them are, because a lot of those areas, as I recall,are within the areas that are <br /> 1279 not able to be impacted, and thereby,they're not going to be cleared or cut just as part of the <br /> 1280 development unless there needs to be earthwork done in those areas, and that is not the case <br /> 1281 within those conservation areas. <br /> 1282 <br /> 1283 Beth Bronson: Yes. <br /> 1284 <br /> 1285 Laura Haywood: We do have a tree conservation plan on Page 67 of your packet. And in the lower bottom right- <br /> 1286 hand corner,the primary tree protection area that we have in our plan is 22.23 acres or 20,very <br /> 1287 small, 28.4 percent of the overall site. Secondary tree protection area is 27.04 acres,which is <br /> 1288 34.5 percent of the site, and the total protected area is 49.27 acres,which is 62.9 percent of the <br /> 1289 overall site. <br /> 1290 <br /> 1291 Ward Marotti: In addition to the environmental assessment,we did do a tree survey of the entire parcel and <br /> 1292 documented the size, the diameter at breast height, species, and location of all the trees. 1 <br /> 1293 believe, I'd have to look back, but I believe it was all trees greater than 4 inches diameter breast <br /> 1294 height,so everything bigger than about like that got identified to species and it's at least <br /> 1295 approximate location documented. <br /> 1296 <br /> 1297 Beth Bronson: Now,was that back in 2024 or was that more recently? <br /> 1298 <br /> 1299 Ward Marotti: I believe it was'24, is that right? I mean, not a whole lot is going to happen in a year. With <br /> 1300 exception of having it be cleared, obviously,that could have happened. But with regard to the size <br /> 1301 and the species wouldn't change substantively. <br /> 1302 <br /> 1303 Laura Haywood: I was just going to clarify. It has happened at the end of'24. <br /> 1304 <br /> 1305 Ward Marotti: Yeah,that's what I thought it might have been in the early winter this year. <br /> 1306 <br /> 1307 Delores bailey: Can I ask a quick question about the trees, so that means her trees won't get cut down, the ones <br /> 1308 that this owner was referring to. <br /> 1309 <br /> 1310 Laura Haywood: Correct, there is a 100-foot buffer surrounding our property boundary edges, so I don't see a <br /> 1311 scenario in which those would be impacted. That would be tree save. <br /> 1312 <br /> 1313 Delores Bailey: So, Cathy's trees won't get cut down? <br /> 1314 <br /> 1315 Laura Haywood: No. <br /> 1316 <br />