SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS (8-22-17)

Capital Hill PUD: PDT 17-01 Page 2 of 5 Completeness Review Response ➢ Fairmount Neighbors boundary ➢ EC 9.8010 Adopted Plans Map and legend; In summary, a portion of the site is within the South Hills Study and is codified in EC 9.8010 Adopted Plans (see attached South Hills Plan map and EC 9.8010 Adopted Plans Map and Legend). The narrative indicates that only tax lots 100 and 201 are within the Laurel Hill Plan boundary, however the entire site, except tax lot 300, is located within the boundary. Tax lots 200 and 400, which are located within the Laurel Hill Plan boundary are also located within the Fairmount Neighbors neighborhood. As well, all of tax lot 300 and small portions of tax lots 100 and 201 are located within the Fairmount Neighbors neighborhood. Please revise the narrative accordingly. The narrative has been corrected to simply indicate that all of the property is in the South Hills Study area and that there is a boundary line on the proposed Site Plan that indicates which property is in each of the 2 neighborhoods. • Staff has concerns that several lots show larger trees within the conservation area that would be potential technical fellings. Staff believes it is feasible to slightly adjust the conservation areas and buildable lot areas in order to preserve for example the 30 inch maple south of lot 15 (tree no. 2169) while still yielding a sizable building area for lots 15 and 14. Other examples include lots. Please review all lots have conservation areas and assess the possibility of further adjustments in order to preserve additional trees. In general this statement above will always be true. The team moved all lots lines around in an effort to ensure some of the more healthy trees were preserved. In doing so we found with the move of one lot line and then another, other trees that were originally preserved were at risk of technical felling. In a forested environment the healthy trees and less than healthy trees are intermingled. It is impossible to move lot lines to preserve healthy trees without affecting other healthy trees. This becomes a guessing game as well. Which trees should remain? Which ones should require adjusting of lot lines? In fact over 33% of the site has been preserved and preserved in a large contiguous area. A valid question might be: If we had preserved 25% of the site and then in response to this request to look at preserving more trees added 10% more would that then have been satisfactory? It is our experience that there is no end for requests to preserve more trees, no matter how many have been preserved. In this case this large group of trees is contiguous with the trees on the Ribbon Trail and meet many if not all of the tree preservation criteria for preserving large stands, not creating individual trees subject to wind throw, etc. It also creates a large contiguous visual buffer on the east side of the property, not an insignificant concern expressed by neighbors through this process. As a not so minor detail many of the deciduous trees (i. e. maples, oaks, cherries, ash) found in this forest are in fair to poor condition regardless of the caliper size. They are being shaded by the healthier more vigorous Douglas firs as indicated in the written statement and in the tree assessment chart provided with the drawing package. Substantial damage has occurred as well as a result of the 2016 ice storm that was followed by a wind storm that damaged or uprooted even more trees. Many of the trees that are shown on the plan in fair or poor condition were damaged as a result of these storms. Healthy trees were damaged as well. • Regarding elevation drawings to show how the site will be viewed from off site and to ensure how the development will be viewed in terms of scale, bulk and height to ensure that the development blends with the South Hills area. Even though your response indicates the site cannot be seen, except by existing residence across Capital Drive, photographic or other evidence is needed to show this is correct. Staff points out that during our past sight visit, from the existing points on Capital Drive, part Schirmer Satre Group • 375 West 4 m Avenue, Suite 201, Eugene, OR 97401 • (541) 686-4540