<div dir="ltr"><div>From the Planning Public Notification service:</div><div>
<p id="m_-4923038518436745753isPasted" style="text-align:justify;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;box-sizing:inherit;border:0px none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5"><strong style="font-weight:700;box-sizing:inherit"><u style="box-sizing:inherit">Text Amendment Regarding Phased Development and Tree Preservation (TC2200004)</u>: </strong><span style="box-sizing:inherit">This text amendment proposes revisions to the </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Tree Protection and Tree Coverage standards (Section 8.3)</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">,</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> Project Boundary Buffer standards (Section 9.4)</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">, and </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Article 13, Addit</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">i</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">onal </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Requirements</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> for Subdivisions (new Sec. 13.9, </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Phased Development</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">)</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">within the </span><em style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Unified Development Ordinance</span></span></em><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> (UDO) in order to: </span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> </span></p><ul style="list-style:circle;margin:1em 0px 1.4em;padding:0px 0px 0px 3em;box-sizing:inherit;border:0px none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5" type="disc"><li style="text-align:justify;box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0.35em;border:0px none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">A</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">ddress </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">ongoing </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">concerns regarding soil erosion </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">during the development of</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">larger sites,</span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> </span></li><li style="text-align:justify;box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0.35em;border:0px none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Incentivize</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> better management and </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">encourage more deliberate design </span>in regards to grading<span style="box-sizing:inherit"> and topography</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">, and </span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> </span></li><li style="text-align:justify;box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0.35em;border:0px none"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Amend tree coverage and preservation </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">standards</span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">to prioritize </span><span style="box-sizing:inherit">preservation of existing tree coverage instead of tree replacement, where possible. </span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit"> </span></li></ul><p style="text-align:left;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;box-sizing:inherit;border:0px none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Link to the Joint City-County Planning Committee Agenda Item: </span><br style="box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit"><a href="https://www.durhamnc.gov/DocumentCenter/View/47408/TC2200004---Phased-Development-and-Tree-Preservation-PDF" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,71,127);text-decoration:underline;box-sizing:inherit" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">https://www.durhamnc.gov/DocumentCenter/View/47408/TC2200004---Phased-Development-and-Tree-Preservation-PDF</span></a></span></p>

</div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Mimi Kessler<br>919-599-2892<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>