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Titusville member urges stronger critical-root-zone protections ahead of proposed tree-ordinance changes
Summary
Member Browning summarized a nine-page report recommending the city update its tree ordinance critical-root-zone standard from six inches per trunk inch to the national 12-inch-per-inch standard and to strengthen protections for transport and feeder roots. Council previously agreed to move related ordinance changes toward public hearings.
Member Browning told the commission he submitted a nine-page report to the city manager summarizing scientific literature and recommending changes to the city's tree ordinance critical-root-zone standard.
Browning said the current Titusville code uses six inches of critical-root-zone radius per inch of trunk diameter (0.5 feet per inch), while the American National Standards Institute and the International Society of…
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