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Ashland Tree Commission
Regular Meeting
June 3, 2004
Minutes
| I. | Call to Order: Chair Ted Loftus called the Ashland
Tree Commission meeting to order at 7:04 p.m. on June 3, 2004 at the Siskiyou
Room in the Community Development/Engineering Services Building at 51 Winburn
Way.
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| II. | Approval of Minutes: The minutes of May 6, 2004 were approved with corrections. The corrections were as follows: 1) page 2, sixth paragraph the addition to the last sentence as follows "Holley concurred and Loftus determined that discussion would continue during old business.", and 2) page 7, last paragraph the first two sentences were amended as follows "Holley expressed his thoughts over Tree Commissioners' concerns over trying to do too much. He distributed a list of action items separating out education items from everything else." | ||||||||||||||||
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| III. | Welcome Guests & Public Forum: There were no guests in attendance, and no public comments were received. | ||||||||||||||||
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| IV. | Commissioner Training: Barbara Christensen, City Recorder and Paul Nolte, City Attorney gave a presentation on public meeting law, conducting meetings and public ethics rules. | ||||||||||||||||
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| V. | Public Hearings: The public hearing for Planning Action 2004-075 for 550 Mistletoe Road was postponed due to incomplete information. | ||||||||||||||||
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| VI. | Old Business: Items D. Heritage Tree Process and E. Design Professional Ordinance Amendment were moved up to allow Paul Nolte, City Attorney to participate in the discussion. | ||||||||||||||||
| D. | Heritage Tree Process: Draft revisions of the 18.61, Heritage Tree Designation and Tree Preservation Agreement and the Nomination Form were discussed. The suggestion was to require a Tree Removal Staff Permit for the removal of a heritage tree by adding "e. Removal of a heritage tree." to 18.61.042. The discussion of the agreement involved adding language to the agreement that definitively spells out the responsibility of the property owner for care of the tree, and adding language designating a process to easily remove a heritage tree from list if the property owner chooses to do so. It was explained that the removal of the agreement from the title was by filing a quitclaim deed. It was suggested that the removal process by quitclaim deed should also be included in Chapter 18.61. The discussion of the Nomination Form included editing including moving the Tree Description section under "For City Use", and deleting the line above the signature line "Report by the Tree Commission is attached." Holley/Pritchard m/s to add the quitclaim deed language to the agreement and ordinance. Voice vote: All AYES. Motion passed. | ||||||||||||||||
| E. | Design Professional Ordinance Amendment: The status of
the amendment was discussed. It was established that Tree Commission members
had drafted language that was given to Staff. The item was tabled until the
next meeting to allow Staff to determine status of the project.
There was discussion of the tree account referred to in Chapter 18.61 for mitigation for tree removal (payment in lieu of planting) and for unauthorized tree removal penalties. The suggestions were to include the account in the adopted 2004-1005 budget, establish the fees and estimate the annual amount which will be collected |
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| A. | Goals
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| B. | Liaison Reports
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| C. | Memorial Tree List: Indefinitely tabled.
The current Capital Improvements Project list was requested from Staff. |
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| D. | Type I Planning Actions: There was a discussion of the process currently being used for Type I Planning Actions which is Staff conducting an in-house review. The possibility of bringing Type I planning actions back on the agenda for review by the full Tree Commission was discussed. It was also suggested that the Tree Commission might consider being part of the pre-application conference review. There was concerned expressed that things are happening with administrative approvals (Staff Permits and Type I Planning Actions) that the Tree Commission should know about. It was suggested that a monthly report on the administrative approvals be prepared by Staff for the Tree Commission. | ||||||||||||||||
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| VII. | New Business | ||||||||||||||||
| A. | Revolving Chair: There was discussion and agreement that the annual election of the Chair should be a regular item on the January agenda as outlined in the Ashland Municipal Code. | ||||||||||||||||
| B. | Root Pruning Brochure: There was agreement that a root pruning brochure does not need to be developed because the material is existing in the nine tree brochures that have recently been acquired. | ||||||||||||||||
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| VIII. | Commission Items Not on the Agenda: The Commission
members discussed the possibility of not having an August meeting, and requested
that Staff make this happen if possible.
It was agreed that the continuation of the review of Chapter 18.61 be an agenda item for the July meeting. |
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| IX. | Announcements: It was announced that the next Tree Commission meeting will be on July 8, 2004 at 7:00 p.m. in the Siskiyou Room. | ||||||||||||||||
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| X. | Adjournment: There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 9:55 p.m. |
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