On February 2, nearly a hundred people spoke out about proposed reforms to Portland’s city tree policies (the Citywide Tree Project): 43 testified before City Council and 55 wrote letters. City Council will address concerns raised at the meeting during another public meeting on March 9 at 2 p.m. Despite Portlanders’ obvious passion for trees—City [...]
Scott Fogarty’s OregonLive guest column, Appreciating Oregon’s Trees, outlines a visionary way of valuing trees. An excerpt from the piece: By recognizing trees as capital assets, the I-205 project secured funding through a Nature in Neighborhoods capital grant from Metro’s 2006 voter-approved natural areas bond measure. The result: Thousands of native trees and shrubs will [...]
Tags: BES, CTP, I-205, Mayor Adams, Metro, ODOT, planting, street trees
A new exclusive interview published today on BikePortland.org explains one of the main reasons why the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) changed the name Bike Boulevards to Neighborhood Greenways: trees. Excerpts from the article: The main reason for the change is to better reflect what these projects are all about. PBOT realizes that by calling [...]
Tags: bike, CTP, PBOT, street trees
An overwhelming majority of testimony Tuesday night supported moving the Citywide Tree Project (CTP) forward to a vote by the Portland City Council. About two dozen speakers—neighborhood association leaders, research scientists, concerned citizens, home builders and nonprofit leaders—testified in front of the Urban Forestry Commission and Planning Commission. An analysis of all the public testimony, [...]
