James Mitchell

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Charlotte City Council · City Council Business Meeting on 2026-02-09 5:00 PM - Feb 09, 2026 · 9 Feb 2026 meeting

These are developer-paid funds.

So they have an option when they're doing development to do a tree save on site or pay money for a fee-in-lieu program.

So in essence, to save a site elsewhere that's not on their property.

So we invest these monies in trees elsewhere.

For the record, we have great trees on Mallard Creek that we would love to preserve.

Thank you.

Council Member John, I'm sorry, Council Member Mayfield, please.

Thank you, Mayor Pro Tem, and thank you for the clarification.

But for me, fee in lieu is still tax dollars because what we allowed is for you to do your development where you were going to have some clear cutting versus you saving those trees that were mature trees.

You were given an option to pay into the future growth or investment for other trees.

So as far as I'm concerned, it's still...

tax dollars that helped to get us there because the community, the taxpayers saw the impact of trees that were removed in their neighborhoods for a development.

But I do appreciate the fact that we have this program.

I don't have necessarily a challenge with us funding the conservation.

It is the dollar amount that is the challenge for me.

When we think of

the fact that we do need to have a tree canopy that's diverse throughout the entire city.

Yes, this is beautiful waterfront property.

There's a select number of people that's going to be over here for this waterfront property, whether it's a grayway, a trail, that's going to be utilizing it.

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