Issue 1: Is Your Community Street Tree Receptive?

Is there local support? Is funding adequate? Is the landscape conducive to street

trees?Can boulevards and R.O.W.s support

life?Are street trees permitted?

Business community?City decision-makers?Residents?Special interest groups?

EXISTING CLUES

Comprehensive Community Plan

Tree Ordinance or Policy

Tree Board Tree City USA City Forester Tree Budget

LOOKING FOR CLUES

Surveys Neighborhood Meetings Council/Committee

Meetings Focus Groups

Bottom-Up Campaign Neighborhood/Block Groups Schools Businesses Special Interest Groups

Listen to City Employees Engineers and Planners Law Enforcement

Listen to Decision-Makers

BusinessesTransportationPr0perty-ownersVisitors

Purchasing new treesPlanting new treesMaintaining new trees

Health Safety

Working around trees Parking Construction

Replacing trees

Costs Purchase Price Installation Watering and

Pruning Health Maintenance Safety Maintenance Sidewalk, Curb,

Sewer Repair Utility Maintenance Removal

Benefits Quality of Life Environmental Economic

“…in Milwaukee the values of homes located directly on streets with landscaped boulevards are higher…A 2000 study found that they were worth about $1,600 more than those farther away, despite greater levels of traffic.” Wisconsin Academy Review, Winter 2005.

Curbs?Urban Woodland?Overhead Utilities?Winding or Straight?Broad or Narrow Right-of-Way?

Minimum width of 8 feetFree of overhead utilitiesMinimum of 300 cu. ft. of root

volumeMinimal deicing salt

A Marcy Bean Photo

A Dave Hanson Photo

Funding for the Manual:•U.S. Forest Service•MN Local Road Research Board•UMN Department of Forest Resources