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Regulatory Update The Department of Planning and Development (DPD) began a project in the summer of 2007 to review and revise its current tree regulations in order to better foster tree preservation and planting. The first step in the project was convening the Emerald City Task Force (ECTF) - a ten member citizen advisory panel made up of representatives from the development, architecture, landscape architecture, building, and tree care professions. The ECTF issued their recommendations in December. The next step was to convene tree advocates in the spring of 2008 to gather their perspectives on revising the City’s tree regulations. Informed by the input of these two groups, benchmarking research, and the expertise of a consulting arborist, DPD is developing policy proposals to share with the public for their feedback in the first half of 2008. Based on all the community input, legislation will be developed and forwarded to the City Council by the end of the year. |