Pat Showalter
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard 8 Sep
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I'm still a little confused about the use of near native landscaping.
Have we just axed it from the plan, or is it still included?
I mean, it seems like it's something that we should get rid of, but I wasn't sure exactly what you had landed on.
Well, I know being involved in restoration work
for several times, that people argue endlessly about what native plants mean.
And so we don't want to do that tonight.
Or I don't want to do it tonight.
But at the same time, I did see,
some phraseology that said something like near native was anything on the North American continent.
That's just way too broad.
So I hope that when you are having that discussion, you'll take a little more focused look.
Perhaps we could look at
west of the Rockies or California or not necessarily a small area, but the whole continent is really, that's a lot.
And then the other thing I think is that although we do talk about the importance of native plants, particularly in these anchor areas, you don't have to have native plants everywhere.
You just want to, you know, we just want to have a preponderance of them so that they provide some habitat.
And I don't know that that was really discussed very much.
But I think particularly, I mean, we have many, many plants in our tree palette that are not native, but that provide, you know, good shade and are beautiful and beautiful.
we certainly do not want to get rid of all those trees by a long shot.
I think that is better, okay.
And then I wanted to also ask a question.
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