January 2026 – TreePAC is beginning a new year.
Last year – 2025 – was a busy year for TreePAC with Seattle both updating the City’s Comprehensive Plan and complying with Washington State HB 1110 to increase housing density in our city to meet future projected growth. TreePAC was heavily involved in this effort to increase support for increased tree protection during development. Our biggest success was helping to amend Seattle’s Tree Protection Ordinance to remove the developer sponsored ‘basic tree protection area” loophole.
We also spend the first part of the year monitoring legislation in Olympia that affected tree protection and were successful in helping to stop legislation that would have allowed developers to remove all trees on lots being developed by letting them just plant new trees somewhere else. The problem is that replacing an 80 year old Douglas fir tree or a western red cedar takes 80 years.
TreePAC also did candidate questionnaires on mayoral and and city council candidates in Seattle as in past years and this year added city council candidates in Shoreline.
Please help us continue our work by making a donation today to continue our work in 2026. We are an all volunteer organization and are dependent on financial support from supporters like you. Thank you.