Remarks by Katrina Rice-Schmidt
163 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 7
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“I just have a question about the mitigation proposal Are you going to address that?”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“So I just had questions. If you could walk us through the mitigation. So I see that your appraised value is $119,600 of the nine trees to be removed. And then that is 125 inches of trees being removed. And the replacement trees is 31.1 inches. So that leaves a total of 94.3 still to mitigate, inches to mitigate?”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Okay, and then on the trees that are planted,”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“So that 94 inches equates to 8,815 using 24 inch boxes?”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah, because I was just confused, because when you talk about the dollar value, it's $119,600 appraised value of the existing trees. And then you subtract what you want to put into the tree fund, which is $9,675, which leaves a total of $109,925. That's a big number. You can massage these figures any way you want to.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“It's clear to me. I just wanted you to talk me through it because I was seeing it.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah. And it is a big number. But I think for me, it's more important to have replacement trees, young ones that can establish well. in our climate and have more of the younger trees and fewer of the big box trees. Right.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“will you remind me does the does the tree replacement does the ordinance talk about tree replacement having multiple trees like if there was one tree being removed you would have to replace with three or something like that is there anything like that in our ordinance and I think there's something like that in the county so no this is it right here”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Do we have a tree replacement plan in the city where exactly where we want to plant trees?”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah. So I guess my concern or my hope is that the tree fund doesn't just sit there forever and no trees being planted anywhere. So it would be nice to have a proactive, like, OK, we got 9,000 coming in. Where can we plant trees? Like, we're going to plant trees.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah, what is it sitting there for? We could have trees in the ground.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“I guess I'm okay with the nine trees where they're planted I have no problem with that I guess my my hiccup is the mitigation fee yeah so the nine is fine for planting and I think it's great that he's going with at least some 24 inch box because those are the two inch trees I am understanding So there's also a 36 inch box and a 48 yeah so I mean those are gonna be four that's fine but I'd like to see more 24 inch box I guess my issue is just the mitigation fee itself”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah, I mean... so if he's saying it's double for say a 24 inch box right for me that would be easy enough and when we have an arborist that said it costs about the value of the tree for a 24 inch box then take his 8 815 which is the actual cost to buy the actual trees and then double that figure for the cost of the physical planting of the tree. I'm OK with that.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“I think that might be less than the sanitary sewer hookup fee.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Is there something in the conditions of approval to guarantee that those trees live for a certain amount of time and if they do die within a certain period of time they would have to be replaced?”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah, there is, because I'm reading a bunch of conditions.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah, I know we've done that in the past. Have you ever, have you ever,”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Well, from my own experience, I've planted a tree very close to an existing tree and it's thriving. The existing oak is fine. It's in my front yard. You can all look at it. It's on the street. I don't know. I wouldn't want to take out any trees that they're willing to plant. Michael?”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“I mean, what's your thought? Because that's what we're working on, problem. Right.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“No, it's the 94 inches. So we've got inches and we've got the appraised value. I mean, if you just go straight inches. So we have 125 existing inches.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“But that's what he told us. That's what I wanted to clarify.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Because he's saying that there was $119,000 of the appraised value of the trees.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Right. And that equates to 125.4 inches. Of diameter of trees.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“I think that's what they're doing. That's what they're doing. That's what they're proposing.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah. It's at the bottom. Oh, OK. Yeah, my computer ran.”
Planning Commission · Sep 2, 2026