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OS/23/00 09:44 HERITAGE DEUELOPMENT,INC. -4 651 982 2499 NO.484 P201/002 <br />• 11111 DEVELOPMENT FAX <br />• <br />Number of pages: 2 <br />To: City Council Lino Lakes <br />y99 <br />Fax Number. 651- 9824004 Voice Number 651 — 982 -2400 <br />cc: Jeff Smyser <br />From: Thomas Von Bische <br />Date: June 22, 2000 <br />If you do not receive all pages, please contact: <br />SUBJECT: Tree Preservation Ordinance <br />Heritage Development of MN, Inc. <br />450 East County Road D <br />Little Canada, MN 55117 <br />651- 481-0017/ FAX 651- 481 -1518 <br />Having a degree in Landscape Architecture and previously been through the Hennipen <br />County Master Gardner program as well as having worked in three other cities which have <br />this type of policy, 1 think I several valid questions and concerns about your proposed Tree <br />Preservation Ordinance. <br />1. Why are these types of policies always punitive, and not incentive based? Also <br />these types of policies are often offered up as environmental concern, but really <br />these policies are anti - growth policies. How about smaller setbacks, lot size, <br />changes in ROW, grading limits, street widths, etc. <br />2. Inventorying and surveying of trees is extremely expensive, perhaps a walk <br />through of the property to determine what trees or woodlands need to be saved <br />would serve the same purpose. <br />3. Why does your ordinance ever consider the natural life cycle of trees and related <br />vegetation, the age, maturity, condition and the natural ecological evolution of <br />the eco-system? <br />i.e. The protection of forest which later burns because human <br />intervention has not allowed for the natural death, decay and <br />burning of these eco-systems. <br />