City Council Special Meeting and Work Session

Paul Nabtistaffso the result of that second phase of the identify those topics that were the consultant was to be dealing with as they prepared the text and i won't go through all of these but these are those topics i wanted to highlight the two items in red that since that time we have identified that would be better for city staff to lead because these may be applicable outside the activity centers and aren't necessarily directly related to specific recommendations of the smaller plans and these two items are looking at tree canopy requirements and the related tree ordinance. This is something that city staff is going to be working on anyway, particularly with the recent adoption of the urban forest master plan. And the second item is to look at our parking standards. The

PROPOSING LOOKING AT CUSTOM REDUCTIONS FOR EACH USE INDEPENDENTLY, REALLY WITH THE FOCUS trying to encourage better use of parking lots for office buildings because that's where we have the most oversupply. For landscaping, the city staff is separately working on a tree conservation ordinance. This is one of the recommendations of the recently adopted urban forest master plan. This would include things like strengthening recommendations for tree preservation, considering tree canopy requirements as green infrastructure and looking at options such as We are looking at state code and what is allowed in the current code for this and also monitoring current bills that may go forward that may change and actually enhance the way we're able to manage tree canopy through our ordinance or through a separate tree conservation ordinance.