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Carmel-by-the-Sea to seek public input on draft Carmel Forest Master Plan; city forester announces tree removal
Summary
City staff said a near-final draft of the Carmel Forest Master Plan will be presented at a community meeting on the 20th, sent for environmental review and later come to planning and council for adoption; staff also announced removal of a declining Monterey pine and plans to replant a specimen tree.
A near-final draft of the Carmel Forest Master Plan will be introduced at a community meeting Tuesday, the 20th, and then sent for environmental review before returning to the Planning Commission and City Council for adoption, city staff said.
The draft and next steps matter because the city completed an inventory of its public trees — “inventory 13,000 public trees,” an unnamed councilmember noted — and staff say the plan will guide species choices, planting and maintenance as the local climate changes.
Justin Ono, the city forester and a certified master arborist, told the meeting that the draft has been in development since about February 2021, that the plan was renamed from the earlier Forest Management Plan to the…
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