Pat Showalter
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first heard Sep 2023
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I'd like to encourage the city to prioritize locally native plants wherever feasible as these plants and trees provide habitat for our local birds, bees, and butterflies, and that's what we want for our kids and our grandchildren.
Locally native is not defined appropriately in the plan.
local to Mountain View or its surroundings.
However, the strategic plan report defines locally native to include all North American plants.
This definition should be changed.
In the same spirit, the use of near-native, which includes all North America, is overly broad and misleading.
We ask that near-native plants be struck from the document as it blurs the distinction between locally adapted native vegetation and non-native species, which provide lower ecological value.
The use of these terms also creates an unfortunate precedent for other jurisdictions and plans by implying that broad categories of non-local species are ecologically equivalent to locally native vegetation.
Good evening.
Um, I also find the term near native confusing the whole point of native plants as far as biodiversity is concerned.
Is that many native insects such as native bees, butterflies and moss co evolved.
over centuries with native plants.
So without the native plants, many native insects will become extinct.
And without native insects, native birds become extinct.
It seems unlikely that any biodiversity benefits would be offered by plants from other areas of North America.
The second thing, I want to thank staff for the many native plants they included in the planting around the magical bridge.
I was excited to see those.
And finally,
the recently the list of 10 most uh used tree species in mountain view contained only one native and that species and that was redwood so as far as trees are concerned um many trees in mountain view are chosen by private property owners so it's outside the city's influence i propose a city set a policy for itself when choosing a tree species on city property to always consider first
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