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� <br /> To: Chair Kang and Planning Commissioners <br /> From: Mike Gaffron, Asst. City Administrator <br /> Date: November 12, 2009 <br /> Subject: #OS-3164 Zoning& Subdivision Code Amendments: <br /> - Conservation Design Ordinance- Continuation of Public Hearing <br /> Attachments: <br /> A- Conservation Design Ordinance Draft#5 - October 7, 2009 <br /> B -Examples of Definitions for"Significant Tree Stand" <br /> C - PC Minutes 8-17-09 <br /> D - MLCCS M34 X Modifier Descriptions <br /> E- Memo of August 13, 2009 <br /> Attached is Draft #5 of the Conservation Design Ordinance for consideration. Planning <br /> Commission reviewed Draft#5 at its work session on November 4. <br /> During the Public Hearing in August, Jennifer Haskamp representing Susan Seeland made a <br /> number of comments regarding various sections of Draft #4. Jennifer and I later discussed her <br /> recommendations and a number of them were incorporated into Draft #5. Revisions since Draft <br /> #4 are as follows: <br /> 1) The definition of"Negative Views" under "View Analysis" has been revised to qualify <br /> negative views of residential structures as multi-familv residential structures; the idea <br /> being that single-family homes are a part of the rural landscape, but multi-family such as <br /> apartment and condo buildings, or even townhomes,would not be. <br /> 2) On page 3 of the ordinance, the term Ecological Quality Levels has been changed to <br /> Ecological Management Categories, to distinguish it from the "MLCCS M-34X Natural <br /> Community Quality Modifiers". The basis for this change: The M-34X Modifiers are <br /> intended to categorize natural communities as (A) Highest quality — no disturbance and <br /> natural processes intact; (B) Good quality — natural processes intact, but show signs of <br /> past human impacts; (C) Moderate condition — obvious past disturbance but still clearly <br /> recognizable as a natural community; and (D) Poor condition — includes some natives, <br /> but is dominated by non-natives and is widely disturbed and altered. The ordinance, on <br /> the other hand, categorizes communities into 3 "management" levels: (1) Ecological"off- <br /> limits" areas such as wetlands, buffers, required drainage, etc.; (2) Ecological <br /> "opportunities", including existing degraded drainageways and existing degraded <br /> ecosystem remnants; and (3) Ecological "possibilities", i.e. areas so degraded as to not <br /> be worthy of preservation, and therefore suitable for converting to uses such as <br /> stormwater treatment. The problem with attempting to correlate these two systems of <br />