Packed audience tonight, but first of the month often has mayoral proclamations not on the public agenda. At least one interest group (Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America) is visible for its matching orange shirts.
Mayor Roberts declaring June as both "Gun Violence Awareness" Month and Pride month. Two young folks accepting the pride month proclamation. Mayor calls out Stonewall explicitly as the origin of Pride and declares that the Progress Pride flag will fly at city hall during this month
#2 is a Moms Demand Action member thanking for the proclamation. It is just a day, June 6th. I was wrong earlier.
#3 is another, talking about his nephew being killed by a gun. Awful and sobering statistics following, with a shout out that gun deaths are down in WA, which is great.
#4 is council candidate Jack Malek speaking on trees. Malek strongly prefers density over trees because density is far more carbon neutral than single family housing with a few trees.
Agreed in principle, but I'm curious about the math they use to get to their number (in the hundreds of millions of dollars). Getting this number wrong could lead to very harmful policies (charging thousands of dollars in fees to remove a single tree).
Yeah, I am concerned that suddenly we will ALL own trees on one lot, so tearing down an old house is just a loss of a house, but taking out a tree demands compensation to all neighbors or something.
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Full roster for the council as well.
#1 is Save Shoreline Trees about 7F, wanting the dollar value of trees in RoW calculated for each tree via automation.
I have issues with SST, but this is not really one of them. More how they will use it, the data is good.
#3 is another, talking about his nephew being killed by a gun. Awful and sobering statistics following, with a shout out that gun deaths are down in WA, which is great.