City council acts to preserve groves of trees, interesting to see how this will impact the Waldo Woods development.

This actually surprised me, Council President Richard Conlin and Councilmember Sally Clark introduced a resolution asking the DPD to ‘extend Seattle’s tree-preservation rules to groves of trees‘. I just didn’t expect them to take a stand on this.This resolution is an especially interesting development for the proposed Waldo Woods development in Maple Leaf because it does seem to add an extra element of risk to the project.  Should Prescott keep fighting for what it has right now and risk getting the rug pulled out from under them by the city council, or should it try to compromise with the neighborhood now and see if they can work out an agreement on an alternative?Prescott already has received approval from the DPD — but in the other corner it faces an organized and politically-saavy neighborhood which has already filed an appeal of the DPD’s decision (to be held at 9:00am on July 22nd), and now it looks like a couple of council members are starting to flex their land use muscles.  It should be interesting to see how this shakes out over the next couple of months.