Planning 2013-06-27 Item 4 H - Public Hearing: Advisory Committee Meeting Memos and Minutes

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City of Tukwila Jim Haggerton, Mayor Department of Community Development Jack Pace, Director MEMORANDUM DATE: August 24, 2012 TO: Tukwila Tree and Environment Advisory Committee FM: Carol Lumb, Senior Planner Sandra Whiting, Urban Environmentalist RE: September 26, 2012 Advisory Committee Meeting Hello everyone, and welcome to the Tukwila Tree and Environment Advisory Committee. I am enclosing a copy of the agenda for our first meeting and some materials for your review. Please note that the meeting will start at 6:00 p.m. in Conference Room 2 of the Department of Community Development, 6300 Southcenter Blvd (the white building next to City Hall) and one of the items we will discuss is revising the start and end time of future meetings. We are trying to accommodate everyone's schedule and the desire on the part of many of you to start the meetings earlier, however, one Tree and Environment Advisory Committee member is participating on the City's Strategic Plan Steering Committee, with meeting times that overlap somewhat with ours (4 -6 p.m.) for the first couple months. We have included a variety of readings for your review. One of the tasks of the Advisory Committee will be to advise the City on revisions /additions to two of the chapters of the City's Comprehensive Plan on goals and policies related to trees and the natural environment. I have included the two chapters of the current Comprehensive Plan that address these two issues and identified the relevant goals and policies with either an arrow or checkmark next to the number. • Community Image Chapter: Goals 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.10 • Natural Environment Chapter: there is minimal mention of trees and vegetation protection in this chapter — see goals 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 and policies 4.1.7, 4.2.2 and 4.3.3 and the references under Implementation Strategies for policies 4.1.1 and goal 4.2. We would like the Committee to help us expand the goals, objectives, policies and implementation strategies to incorporate trees and urban forest management into this chapter. I have also included the regulations from the City's Zoning Code that implement the existing goals and policies. • TMC 18.45, Environmentally Sensitive Areas, (TMC 18.45.070 B. 9.) • TMC 18.50, Landscape, Recreation, Recycling/Solid Waste Space Requirements • TMC 18.52, Tree Regulations The Committee will recommend revisions to the Comprehensive Plan chapters that will go to the Planning Commission and City Council. The policy recommendations from the Committee will be used CPL Page 1 of 2 W: \\Long Range Projects \Urban Forestry\Advisory Committee Materials\Memo 1 06/10/2013 6300 Southcenter Boulevard, Suite #100 • Tukwila, Washington 98188 • Phone 206 -431 -3670 • Fax: 206 - 431 -3653