Item 3 - Addendum with Exhibit.Tree Amendments
PREPARED BY: ROBERT SHULTZ
Town Attorney
Reviewed by: Planning Manager and Community Development Director
110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● (408) 354-6872
www.losgatosca.gov
TOWN OF LOS GATOS
PLANNING COMMISSION
REPORT
MEETING DATE: 03/23/2022
ITEM NO: 3
ADDENDUM
DATE: March 22, 2022
TO: Planning Commission
FROM: Joel Paulson, Community Development Director
SUBJECT: Public Hearing to Consider Amendments to Chapter 29 (Zoning Regulations –
Tree Protection) of the Town Code.
REMARKS:
Exhibit 3 includes public comment received between 11:01 a.m., Friday, March 18, 2022, and
11:00 a.m., Tuesday, March 22, 2022.
EXHIBITS:
Previously received with the March 23, 2022 Staff Report:
1. Findings
2. Draft Tree Protection Ordinance – Red Lined
Received with this Addendum Report:
3. Public comment received between 11:01 a.m., Friday, March 18, 2022, and 11:00 a.m.,
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
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EXHIBIT 3
To: Planning Commission
Re: Item 3, meeting of March 23, 2022
From: Dave Weissman
Dear Commissioners,
I am happy to confirm my support of the draft changes submitted by staff to the Tree
Protection Ordinance. I suggest the following additions to this draft, in red below, to make the
intent more clear and to try and eliminate any loop‐holes.
Exhibit 2, Code page 1 (Staff report page 51): Damage means any action undertaken which
causes short‐term or possible long‐term injury, death, or disfigurement to a tree. This includes
but is not limited to: mechanical injury (whether intentional or not), cutting of roots or limbs,
poisoning, over‐watering, relocation or transplanting a tree, or trenching, grading, compaction,
excavating, paving, or installing impervious surface within the root zone of a protected tree.
Exhibit 2, Code page 11 (Staff report page 61): Sec. 29.10.0994 (7) Trees removed illegally or
damaged shall require the issuance of a retroactive tree removal permit. Once this retroactive
permit is issued, and all required conditions fulfilled, along with any accessed monetary penalties
paid and tree replacement requirements completed, then any Stop Work Order shall be removed.
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