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Last Update:  22 April 2008

NOTICE TO VILLAGERS:  MORATORIUM ON TREE-CUTTING

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY AND ENDING NO LATER THAN JULY 15, 2008

At the April 15, 2008 meeting, your Town Council voted to enact a moratorium prohibiting the topping or removal of any protected tree with a trunk diameter of 12 inches or greater measured at 4-1/2 feet above the surrounding ground surface.

 PROTECTED TREES INCLUDE CONIFEROUS TREES, EVERGREENS, MADRONES, OAKS AND BIG-LEAF MAPLES.

The moratorium provides for exceptions to this rule in cases where a tree:
·       poses an immediate and imminent danger to persons or property,
·       poses a danger to person or property as shown by an arborists report, and
·       is within the footprint of a proposed building for which a building permit has been issued.

 The ordinance also specifies severe penalties for topping, intentionally damaging or removing a protected tree.

 Please contact Clerk-Treasurer Sue Ann Spens at 425-454-8580 or by email at townhall@beauxarts-wa.gov BEFORE cutting any tree – whether the tree sits on your property or on Town right-of-way.  Thank you!  To view the content of this ordinance, click here.

PROPOSED TREE ORDINANCE:  The Council enacted the tree-cutting moratorium to protect large trees on private property while it is completing work on the Town's Proposed Tree Ordinance, which they expect to complete in three months or less.  This project is the result of many hours of study by the Tree Committee and the Planning Commission, including public hearings.  If you would like to read the ordinance that they are studying, please click here.  The text of this ordinance is likely to change over the next three months, and a final version will be reviewed by the Council at a future public hearing.  Residents who are interested in testifying at that hearing should watch their mailstands for the Notice of Public Hearing that will give the date and place of that hearing.

Congratulations to the Western Academy of Beaux Arts on their Centennial!  For more information on planned celebration activities and how you can help, please visit the Centennial Page of this website.

VILLAGERS, PLEASE REMEMBER:  If you plan any construction or tree cutting, you may need a Bald Eagle Management Plan.  The Washington State Dept of Fish and Wildlife lists information about the state's Bald Eagle rules and regulations, contacts for additional assistance, and other important information about this protected species on their website.  Before you begin any work, please review this important information by visiting http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/diversty/soc/baldeagle/.

VILLAGERS, PLEASE TAKE NOTE FOR BLOCKWATCH!

BEAUX ARTS is a Blockwatch Community.  To assist Blockwatch in its duties, the Town has created a Blockwatch Email Alert list, which is maintained by our Town Clerks.  If you have not already done so or if your email address has changed, please forward your current email address to Clerk-Treasurer Spens at townhall@beauxarts-wa.gov or to Deputy Clerk Kulp at blgddept@beauxartsw-wa.gov so that we can keep our distribution list for this vital service as up-to-date as possible.

Some additional safety tips from the King County Sheriff:  While Beaux Arts is a safe and family-friendly community, we are not immune to crime, particularly crimes of opportunity where a thief can get into and out of a vehicle, home, garage, etc. quickly.  ALWAYS REMEMBER TO:

Washington State Dept of Transportation maintains an online schedule of roadway projects throughout the state.  Go to www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects for more information and use the interactive map to navigate to areas of interest to you.  Planned improvements for I-405 can be found at www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/i405.

As you browse documents such as ordinances, minutes, etc., you will notice that these documents are stored as pdf files.  Because pdf readers, e.g. Adobe Acrobat, are readily available and in widespread use, we are using this file type to preserve formatting characteristics and to make our documents available to all computer platforms and operating systems.  If you do not already have a pdf reader, we invite you to visit www.adobe.com to download the latest version of their free Acrobat reader or click this icon.