Posted on January 27, 2011 at 7:53 am
The public is invited to testify before Portland City Council at 6 p.m. on February 2 on the Citywide Tree Policy Review and Regulatory Improvement Project. The project’s proposed reforms will make Portland’s tree policies more equitable, comprehensive, and simpler to understand and enforce. Friends of Trees urges support for these long-overdue reforms. “Currently the [...]
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Tags: development, education, policy
Posted on July 19, 2010 at 8:12 pm
The city of Portland is considering whether or not to annex more than 800 acres on the west side of Hayden Island. The Port of Portland owns most of the area, which is within the Metro Urban Growth Boundary. At a City Council session on July 29, at 6 p.m., the West Hayden Island Community [...]
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Posted on June 21, 2010 at 1:00 am
Join Friends of Trees for our Pedalpalooza bike ride on Thursday, June 24. Green Space Manager Logan Lauvray will lead a guided tour of the tree plantings we organized in partnership with the Oregon Department of Transportation, Metro and others along the I-205 Multi-Use Path. See nationally-progressive transportation policy action! We’ll meet at SE 94th Ave. [...]
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Tags: bike, I-205, ODOT, pedalpalooza, planting, policy
Posted on June 17, 2010 at 11:00 am
Congratulations to Friends of Trees Board Member Nancy Buley, who was honored at the annual Oregon Community Trees (OCT) Urban and Community Forestry Conference this month for her tireless advocacy on behalf of urban tree planting. Nancy is communications director for J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co., which received Friends of Trees’ 2010 Business Leadership Award [...]
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Tags: education, planting, policy, street trees
