Ed Driggs

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Charlotte Zoning Meeting · City Council Zoning Meeting on 2026-04-20 5:00 PM - Apr 20, 2026 · 20 Apr 2026 meeting

I have some questions for staff, either staff or the developer.

The question I had was about the native trees.

There's a commitment to native trees, and I want to know if that commitment is just for the buffer or for the entire property.

Our understanding is that all required buffers that are on the site would be planted with native species, as approved by Urban Forestry.

So all required buffers?

Yes.

So will there be trees outside of the buffers in the development?

There may be with parking lot trees or some street trees, but those would also have to be per the approved species list through urban forestry.

We have a list of approved species, but it doesn't contain invasive.

It just contains the ones that are approved for planting.

One of the concerns that I know she had was if we're not requiring native trees on the entire property, that it could be counterproductive because the other trees

I guess, may be counterproductive to the native trees.

I don't know if I would understand how to fully respond, but I don't think there would be a conflict because the trees in the approved list should be planted in accordance with what urban forestry has approved for plantings across the site.

So I don't think there'd be a mix of invasive trees.

There's not invasive trees allowed that would be planted on site.

So they should all be able to coexist, but they may be

the ones in the buffer would be against specific to those native species and the other trees on the site could just be done through the approved urban forestry list.

The buffer for the space along where the county has property just to the south of the site is a required class A landscape yard and they would actually increase the actual plantings in that by

10% of that type A standard.

I think that is 25 feet for that one.

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