Heritage Tree Removal, PDD, Charnelton & Broadway

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07/16/97 08:27 V541 682 5572 EUGENE DEV DEPT 444 CITY EUG PWMAINT t1002/003 urrllrs► uo:90 x'041 eel 2419 t+l "1'Y mttilt'a ur'r. 4.001 • Post -ir Fax Note 7 ®71 Oslo 7 /4 . ', A • CoJbopl - co. • Ro 0 FOr R July .14 199'7. To: 'Eugene City Council, Mayor, City'Manager From: Frank Drysdale, Eugenie 'resident, First, thank you for finally putting Broadway Place project documents in the Library. These are the fir ®t official Broadway Place project documents to be accessioned by the library. The 'binder was received on Juno 20, 1997. It provides key dates,. . newspaper accounts, Meeting minutes, and documents related to tree removal. Second, . please continua to divulge information. The documents 'shorn that on aurae 1, 1995 and March 7, 1996 project managers met with the Citizen Involvement Committee, On each occasion they were told that citizen participation was inadequate. On June 11, 1996 they presented a project concept to th and Jefferson neighborhdods. Neighbors were concerned about traffic, seale cost, project ownership,• trees_ No vote was taken. On June 24, 1496 project managers came before the City Council, During the hearing citizens noted the project's lack of low- income housing, On November 1, 1996 the Urban Forester wrote to project managers about tree removal laws, significant community importance of site trees, their monetary value, and need for tree ' removal permits. He also told project managers regulations required them to get a determination "fzob someone such as the city Manager" that Heritage Tree removal is necessary "to protect the public health, safety, or welfare," On 'January 21, 1997 The Director of Planning and Development ' sent a memorandum to the City Manager. The memorandum requests a permit to remove•'five Heritage Trees, summarizes regulations for tree removal, and states "the city intends to follow the same process and will perform similar tree lass mitigation practices as a private developer. "' The memorandum also provided a written decision for the City Manager, and provides a signature block. On January 2 2 , 1997, the City Manager approved the removal of, Heritage Trees subject to conditions. Condition 3) required obtaining a permit for removal of non- heritage trees according to the process in'the Eugene Code. Did this memorandum' application process conform what is required to get: permission to fell a Heritage Tree? Was. public comment solicited before the memorandum application was approved on January 22, 1997? Eugene Code sections 6.300 to 6.330 cover tree preservation. . Definitions are at 6.300_ Tree felling prohibitions are at 6.305. The procedure for obtaining a tree felling permit is at '6.310. The criteria for permit issuance' are at 6.320.' The appeals procedure is at 6.325. Exceptions to sections 6.305 to 6.310 are at ,6.330. 0 . Eugene Code section 6'.310(5) states "If 'the applicant proposes to fell more than ten trees, then the city manager or designee shall act upon the permit within 30 days of receiving a completed application, but only after giving publi notice of the application and an opportunity to provide eenmaerits as provided in subsection (6) of this section." Subsection (6) states "Where public notice and comment. period is required before acting on an applications,' the city manager'or designee shall identify abutting • 07/15/97 TUE 08:45 [TX /RX NO 6188]