[0:00] [Music] [0:09] [Music] [0:18] [Music] [0:24] [Music] [0:29] [Music] [0:36] [Music] [0:54] Good evening. I call the July 17, 2025, excuse me, 2025 meeting to order. Could [1:03] you rise for the uh pledge pledge of allegiance [1:09] to the flag of the United States of America to the stands one nationice [1:20] for all. [1:27] Thank you. Miss Ericen, will you take the role, please? Tinsley here. [1:32] here. Palooa here. Zimmer here. Mike here. [1:38] Swany here. Here. [1:44] Thanks. Um, approval of the minutes from the June 26th meeting. We had those [1:49] distributed. Does anyone have any changes? Right. We will let those stand as they [1:55] are. Uh, next item on the agenda is announcements. I would ask planning [2:01] manager Jensen if she has any announcements for us. Thank you, Chair Zimmer. Uh before you this evening, uh you do have the motions [2:07] for uh from the parks, recreation, and natural resources committee regarding the tree preservation ordinance from [2:14] their meeting last evening. That is all of your handouts for this evening. [2:21] Okay, thank you. Uh, next on the agenda is a public [2:26] hearing to consider amendments to title 10 subdivision and title 11 zoning of [2:32] the city code relating to tree preservation. Believe we have director Tina Goodro to uh start us off on that. [2:40] And if you would like to um speak to these uh items, please sign up at the [2:46] back of the room so we have your name uh when we're ready. Thank you. Thank you, chair, members of the [2:51] commission. And um over the past several months, you know, city forestry staff and community development staff have [2:57] been working on evaluating our tree preservation ordinance. Um in a result to um create additional protection for [3:04] remaining trees in the community, um we had prepared an outline that became the [3:10] ordinance. That outline was shared um you know, the context of that outline [3:15] really related to or became um the gist of the ordinance. and we met with the city council over the course of two work [3:21] sessions and with this group combined with the parks and natural resource committee um in a joint session. So out [3:28] of that support from those bodies, we created the ordinance based on that outline. I'm just going to touch on an [3:34] overview of the ordinance. With me this evening is Grace Benson and Zach Jorgensson from our forestry department. [3:41] And if you have specific questions on the ordinance, they'll probably be able to help you a little better than I can. [3:47] But the gist of the ordinance starts with um a section change um to the [3:52] subdivision ordinance that requires the tree preservation ordinance to be created but then um sends you back to [3:59] the zoning ordinance. So this ordinance will now sit within the zoning ordinance rather than the subdivision ordinance. [4:05] Um we have several definitions that were added to the code. And then in section 11219B, [4:12] um we made an edit t…