Pat Showalter
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first heard Sep 2023
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Is that what you have in mind?
Okay, is part of the process also going to be to a general reassessment of, or not reassessment, but maybe a fine tuning of the priorities as you step into the plan and say, okay, we found that this was the amount of work we could undertake this year and so that's how we're gonna do it and then we'll have
next steps for what you think will be the work for the subsequent year.
Is that gonna be part of the process?
Okay, that sounds good.
I know in scientific work, you often describe it as adaptive management.
And basically, that's kind of you, you know, you adapt your plan as you learn about how well it's working or isn't.
And that sounds like exactly what you're talking about.
So that's great, thank you.
Correct.
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.
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