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Parks, Trails & Recreation Committee – October 22, 2024 Page 7 <br /> <br />the City doesn’t have rules but they also don’t want any involvement in those private property <br />issues. <br /> <br />Committee Member Rogers said if the City doesn’t have an alternative plan of what should be <br />planted, how can they say what was planted that weren’t allowed. <br /> <br />Chair Anderson thinks if the City is telling residents they don’t want to get involved, why can’t <br />the City tell whoever complained that? <br /> <br />Council Liaison Rousseau said the complainant is probably someone who is friends with a <br />Councilmember. <br /> <br />Committee Member Rogers asked what would happen if the PTRC created a list and those <br />trees were on the list; how would that be enforced? Each project is going to vary based on the <br />soil, the sun/shade and all kinds of other variables. She doesn’t understand how there can be one <br />list for the entire city. <br /> <br />Chair Anderson wondered if the complaint, in the example, is because the planting is not <br />attractive. <br /> <br />Council Liaison Rousseau said the complaint is that the trees are further than they were <br />supposed to be and that by creating the natural barrier they are doing a land grab. However, other <br />residents have fences right up against the trail further up the trail. She thought Committee <br />Members Jacobson, Dietz and Seemann are knowledgeable about these types of things. She <br />would like everyone’s input. <br /> <br />Committee Member Rogers feels like the PTRC can create a generic list but there are some <br />items where the PTRC can recommend that certain requests are impossible for the PTRC to take <br />on. <br /> <br />Committee Member Loosbrock thought PTRC could recommend the DNR list of native plants. <br /> <br />Committee Member Jacobson said if the City wanted to do something about the encroaching <br />plantings, she thinks the fences also need to be moved. <br /> <br />Discussion ensued and Committee Members agreed this is a question of city code enforcement, <br />not necessarily something in the scope of the PTRC. <br /> <br />Committee Member Dietz said this feels like an issue that residents should have to get approval <br />for, before they plant anything. <br /> <br />Committee Member Rogers agreed. It could be like variances that are requested for homes. <br />That would mean the residents are exploring the possibility of their project rather than the PTRC <br />saying what they can or can’t do. Then Council can approve or deny.