Remarks by Michelle Bushnell
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So my understanding is that does the Q zone in the lower Redway area only protect old growth, or is it the entire forest down there?
To the rest of the county, but not to the Redway area?
So is that what you're meaning, Supervisor Arroyo? I didn't think that's what she was meaning. Oh, okay.
Director Ford, I wanted to ask about, so including, so first of all, there wouldn't be, the moratorium wouldn't happen today. It would be to come back with definition of moratorium, right? Correct. So it wouldn't happen today whether we voted yes or no on this. Secondly, I want to know that when or if this board does put a moratorium on the rest of the county, what does it look like for if there is a hazardous tree and if there's intimate danger and we have this moratorium in place, what happens then?
So that's what I was gonna ask. So if we add language to bring back what the moratorium could look like, could it be the moratorium with a caveat that it just is the same, not a moratorium, but it would follow the same process that the Q Zone in Lower Redway does for hazardous tree mitigation for, it just seems to me that we have to allow a pathway because there are dangerous trees at times.
Okay. So if I was to add to my motion to come back with language around what a moratorium could look like with an ability for a special permit to remove hazardous trees, would that be sufficient?
Can I ask Supervisor Bone, does that help at all with the ability to have the special permit process?
I'm in my motion to remove three, and we'll split the motion. So my recommendation is staff recommendations one and two through E. and to include the committee as directed.
So is the countywide ordinance just specifically around old growth trees, or we had, what are we talking about here?
Can I ask then, currently, with what Supervisor Bohn said, say, I'm just using this as an example, he has a tree that needs to be cut in his house or in his yard, what's the process currently that would happen?
Supervisor Bushnell. With all that that you said, which was a lot, read back what you think John were doing, please.
Can I ask that, do, so I'm sure that when you come back with that moratorium you're gonna have
And thank you. And then before the moratorium comes back, will you engage with our forestry committee and with Cal Fire to make sure that we are including before that moratorium language comes back? Yes. Okay. Thank you.
So I'm gonna vote yes on this, but I am not sure in the future it's gonna be very what it looks like and who we've engaged and what the actual moratorium says, but I am amenable to having that discussion come back.
Thank you. I understand that Supervisor Madron pulled this this morning. I think it's very unfair to the developer and to staff and to this board that we don't have, we don't even have anything to present. And like were we supposed to make all these decisions without even having a staff report? And you pulled that this morning. Is the developer online?
I just said I was told wrong. But I think it is a lot to discuss without having information and presentation.