An online map wouldn’t have saved the American Elms of Kerry Hall — but it would have helped everybody know why they were coming down
The Seattle City Council Tuesday approved a raft of updates to tree protection rules put in place last year that includes a requirement for a new city mapping system to alert residents to upcoming tree work.
Tuesday’s legislation was approved 9-0 and shaped “primarily in response to feedback from tree service providers,” according to council staff. It fine tunes last year’s legislation requiring tree service providers to register with the city prior to conducting work on private property.
In addition to some language tweaks and simplifications, Tuesday’s update will move the process of informing the public about upcoming tree work to the Seattle Department of Construction & Inspections. Providers will now need to register and report planned work to SDCI and the department will provide public notice at least three days in advance.
As part of the legislation, SDCI is required to begin posting online notices on a map-based system by March 31, 2024.
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some thing needs to be done to prevent developers from buying single residency homes and bull-dozing the entire lot including mature trees and shrubs. have seen it happen many times in my neighborhood.
Tell Jamie Pedersen and Nicole Macri. The “middle housing” bills they are sponsoring will destroy a lot of Seattle’s tree canopy without changes in the building codes. Middle housing doesn’t mean middle income; it means middle scale—in other words, mostly townhouses.