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exist. Therefore, the "weed" program does not have the ability to recover the full costs <br />associated with providing the service. <br />In contrast, the tree planting program implemented by these administrative rules is <br />intended to ensure that development standards and the goals of the Local Street Plan and <br />Urban Forest Management Plan are met. The benefitted properties of street tree planting are <br />easily identified and the program is designed to fully recover all costs associated with <br />providing the service. <br />Comment 1S: The local arborist is prejudiced against perhaps the most popular street <br />tree in America flowering or ornamental pear} which nurseries can't grow fast enough. <br />Findin :The Urban Forestry Management Plan policy # 1 states "the City will plant <br />trees on public property that have potential for good performance and will, over time, <br />achieve a diversity of species for greater stability of the urban forest" and Proposed Action <br /># 10.1 states, "Develop standards for minimum area requirements to ensure that trees of <br />differing mature size classes can thrive along new and widened streets." The flowering pear <br />is a popular street tree and it is on the approved street tree species list. Due to the need of <br />species diversity, proper selection for the site, and the planting of large canopy trees along <br />with smaller trees the flowering pear is not recommended for all situations. The flowering <br />pear is a smaller tree with minimum canopy and it is identified to be used where appropriate <br />in sites that have little room, are under wires ar where a under story canopy tree is more <br />appropriate. As with the EIm tree and the Bradford Pear, the flowering pear is now banned <br />by many cities and we have to be very careful not to over plant one species just because it <br />is popular. <br />Comment 19: Landscaping and tree establishment is seasonal -dependent on <br />weather. <br />Finding: I agree. New trees have the best chance of survival if planted when they <br />are dormant in the late fall and winter months, R~7.28o~D.7.1, which specifies the limits of <br />the planting seasons far various types of trees, was included for just this reason. <br />Comment 20: Do not require the establishment of street trees, landscape and <br />irrigation systems until home is completed. <br />Findin :Neither the Eugene Code, 1971 provisions nor the implementing rules <br />require the planting of the street trees prior to the completion of the home, ~ However, the <br />Code provisions do place the responsibility on the developer to ensure the trees are planted <br />and established. <br />if the developer chooses to plant and establish the txees, the administrative rules set <br />requirements for the developer to show how the trees, if planted early, will not conflict with <br />later construction. if the developer elects to wait until home construction is completed, the <br />rules require the developer to show how ~s}he will track the completion of specific home <br />construction projects and provide for the trees to be planted at that time, <br />Exhibit B to Street Tree Plan Agreement <br />97-00421 <br />