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Home My WebLink AboutWSE Parking Expansion A-2025-0075 Tree Mitigation RequirementsFrom:Kyle Yorita To:Stacy Hersh Subject:RE: WSE Parking Expansion A-2025-0075 Date:Friday, September 5, 2025 11:07:30 AM Hi Stacy, Western States CAT will be purchasing 28 trees to mitigate for 52.5 inches, which will satisfythe requirement for the Western States Equipment Parking Expansion project. They are also planning to make this a service project for their employees by helping to plant the 28 trees ina designated park at the beginning of October. Western States CAT will be working directly with SuperTrees, the tree vendor, and will handle payment directly with them (not throughreimbursement from the City). Please let me know what else I need to do to ensure this is included with their plan application. Thank you! Kyle Yorita | City ArboristISA Certified Arborist #PN-9097A City of Meridian | Parks and Recreation33 E. Broadway Ave., Suite 206, Meridian, Idaho 83642 Phone: 208.409.1601 | Fax: 208.898.5501 From: Stacy Hersh <shersh@meridiancity.org> Sent: Friday, August 1, 2025 2:15 PM To: Kyle Yorita <kyorita@meridiancity.org> Subject: RE: WSE Parking Expansion A-2025-0075 Hi Kyle, Great! Thank you for keeping me informed. Stacy Hersh | Assistant Planner City of Meridian | Community Development Department 33 E. Broadway Ave., Meridian, Idaho 83642 Phone: (208)-489-0576, Fax: (208)-887-1297 Built for Business, Designed for Living All e-mail messages sent to or received by City of Meridian e-mail accounts are subject to the Idaho law, in regards to both release and retention, and may be released upon request, unless exempt from disclosure by law. From: Kyle Yorita <kyorita@meridiancity.org> Sent: Friday, August 1, 2025 2:01 PM To: Stacy Hersh <shersh@meridiancity.org> Subject: RE: WSE Parking Expansion A-2025-0075 Hey Stacy, I wanted to provide an update regarding tree mitigation for Western States Equipment.Yesterday, I met onsite with their team and landscape architect to walk the property. Weidentified several areas where trees can be planted to satisfy a portion of their mitigationrequirements. For the remaining mitigation inches, we tentatively developed a plan for WSEto contribute by planting trees off-site in one of our parks. They were very receptive to thisalternative compliance approach. The proposed plan is for WSE to handle all on-site plantingsand then coordinate directly with me on species and locations for the park plantings. Theywould purchase the trees directly through a wholesaler of my choice (most likely SuperTrees),which eliminates the need for any monetary exchange between the City and WSE while stillsatisfying their mitigation obligation. Bill is aware of this arrangement. I was in the fieldyesterday without access to my computer, so while confirming details, I reached out to Linda,who spoke with Bill and got the green light to proceed. Please let me know if you have anyquestions or concerns. I’ll be out of the office all next week and may have limited cell service,but I’ll return on the 11th. Thanks so much! Kyle Yorita | City ArboristISA Certified Arborist #PN-9097ACity of Meridian | Parks and Recreation33 E. Broadway Ave., Suite 206, Meridian, Idaho 83642Phone: 208.409.1601 | Fax: 208.898.5501 From: Stacy Hersh <shersh@meridiancity.org> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2025 10:52 AM To: Kyle Yorita <kyorita@meridiancity.org> Subject: RE: WSE Parking Expansion A-2025-0075 Thank you Kyle! Stacy Hersh | Assistant Planner City of Meridian | Community Development Department 33 E. Broadway Ave., Meridian, Idaho 83642 Phone: (208)-489-0576, Fax: (208)-887-1297 Built for Business, Designed for Living All e-mail messages sent to or received by City of Meridian e-mail accounts are subject to the Idaho law, in regards to both release and retention, and may be released upon request, unless exempt from disclosure by law. From: Kyle Yorita <kyorita@meridiancity.org> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2025 9:54 AM To: Stacy Hersh <shersh@meridiancity.org> Subject: RE: WSE Parking Expansion A-2025-0075 Stacy, If NMID is prohibiting the use of trees and requiring shrubs instead, then that will needto be the path forward. While it's not ideal, incorporating shrubs is preferable to having nolandscaping at all, in my opinion. The parking expansion will require the removal of some existing trees, all of which are locatedwithin theNMID and City utility easements. Mitigation for the removal of these trees is not proposedsince the treesare not permitted due to the easements and are at risk of removal at any time by NMID orMeridian whenmaintenance or repair of the utilities is necessary. Mitigation will be required for the removal of these trees, with the option for alternative compliance by relocating the replacement trees to the north, along the freeway. Given that the trees being removed substantially exceed the standard four-inch caliper mitigation requirement, additional effort should be made to more closely match the total caliper inches removed. Please also provide a letter from NMID outlining the planting restrictions and guidelines within their easements. Please let me know if this works for you and or need anything else. Thank you. Kyle Yorita | City ArboristISA Certified Arborist #PN-9097ACity of Meridian | Parks and Recreation33 E. Broadway Ave., Suite 206, Meridian, Idaho 83642Phone: 208.409.1601 | Fax: 208.898.5501 From: Stacy Hersh <shersh@meridiancity.org> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2025 10:40 AM To: Kyle Yorita <kyorita@meridiancity.org> Cc: epassey@thelandgroupinc.com Subject: WSE Parking Expansion A-2025-0075 Importance: High Good morning Kyle, Please see the attached Narrative and proposed landscape plan. The Applicant states that they do not need to mitigate trees due to their residing in NMID easements. The Planning Division is requesting Alternative Compliance per the UDC for the removal of the trees and some type of mitigation. Please let me know your thoughts on this. Best regards, Stacy Hersh | Assistant Planner City of Meridian | Community Development Department 33 E. Broadway Ave., Meridian, Idaho 83642 Phone: (208)-489-0576, Fax: (208)-887-1297 Built for Business, Designed for Living All e-mail messages sent to or received by City of Meridian e-mail accounts are subject to the Idaho law, in regards to both release and retention, and may be released upon request, unless exempt from disclosure by law.