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HAMMITT Bob <br /> From: ANDERSEN Chris F <br /> To: MEDLIN Johnny R <br /> Cc: HAMMITT Bob; PLAMONDON Scott F; FARKAS Abe K <br /> Subject: RE: Tree preservation ordinance <br /> Date: Friday, August 01, 1997 5:23PM <br /> Thanks for the follow up, Johnny. I think it helps clarify where we are and strongly infers that we need to <br /> get moving on the code changes. Abe and I are scheduled to discuss this stuff with execs on 8/21 with <br /> the expectation that staff from the depts. will have had a chance to work through a proposal - -which <br /> sounds like the meeting you already are scheduling. Chris <br /> From: MEDLIN Johnny R <br /> To: ANDERSEN Chris F <br /> Cc: HAMMITT Bob; PLAMONDON Scott F <br /> Subject: FW: Tree preservation ordinance <br /> Date: Friday, August 01, 1997 12:03PM <br /> Hi Chris, <br /> The below is the response from the City Attorney's office that I was worried about. <br /> We can still say to the Council that we are going to stop. <br /> The down side here (from Jerry) was that the financial based <br /> instructions from the Council are not sufficient to protect us <br /> from being involved in a court case if some tree cutting issue <br /> in the community goes seriously wrong. That risk will remain <br /> as long as the code is on the books in its current form. The <br /> other alternative would be to continue doing the permitting <br /> (not any investigations or enforcement) until we can get the <br /> code changed. I guess this would be a policy decision based <br /> on the "risk" assessment of how likely it would be that our <br /> refusing to issue a permit would cause a blow -up ending in a <br /> court situation. <br /> In the code rewrite, I personally feel it is a very good idea <br /> to leave some level of the existing tree protection on private <br /> lands in place in the code as long as we are also clear that <br /> enforcement is to be a civil matter between offended parties. <br /> There needs at least to be a mechanism left that will <br /> prohibit clear cutting large parcels immediately before they <br /> go in for development. The community would get upset if we <br /> had another south hills clear cutting incident like the one we <br /> had with Polanski /Clifton on Spring a couple of years ago. I <br /> will proceed on that basis unless instructed otherwise. <br /> I will get a meeting set up with Jerry Lidz and Scott <br /> Plamondon. I will extend an invitation to Mike McKerrow and <br /> Steve Nystrom. <br /> Thanks <br /> Johnny <br /> From: LIDZ Jerome <br /> To: MEDLIN Johnny R <br /> Cc: LIDZ Jerome <br /> Subject: Tree preservation ordinance <br /> Date: Friday, August 01, 1997 1 1:44AM <br /> Johnny, <br /> After our conversation yesterday, I reviewed the Code <br /> sections on tree preservation one more time and talked to <br /> Page 1 <br />