From:	Michael Behrendt
Sent:	Monday, November 10, 2014 11:23 AM
Subject:	Peak landscaping - email from Parry

To the PB,
Additional notes from John Parry, below.

Please note our new address, at 8 Newmarket Road

Michael Behrendt
Director of Planning and Community Development
Town of Durham
8 Newmarket Road
Durham, New Hampshire  03824-2898
(603) 868-8064 (phone)
mbehrendt@ci.durham.nh.us
www.ci.durham.nh.us


From: John Parry []  
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 10:52 AM 
To: Michael Behrendt 
Subject: Re: Peak landscaping

Hi Michael – I am a bit swamped at work today – trying to catch up after being 
gone much of the past few weeks. I won’t have time to provide comments today, 
but will tomorrow on the revised Peak Plan.
I was hoping to try to be at the PB meeting, but my daughter has her end of the 
year volleyball dinner that night – I will try to come over if it ends early enough, 
but it appears they are only hearing comment at the public comment which I 
assume will end early. I will send a letter to the PB. 
At first glance at the plan, my main comment is that there could still be more 
species diversity. I do think there is room to plant trees in the area above in the 4 – 
6’ strip. I will come up with a few species selections for that. I think it is important 
to have the NEW tree maintenance specified in a contract – at least for 3 year 
period.
I do think all of this planting will make a difference in the long run – but it will 
take some time. In 5 – 10 years there will be a noticeable change. Probably will be 
15 – 20 years to get the kind of buffer we all envision. That is why it is so 
important to protect the existing trees that are there to start with – it takes a long 
time to replace them. That is one weakness I see with the existing review process – 
developers often don’t show the existing trees in their plans, so we are not aware of 
what will be lost.