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Finance Committee advances ordinance to strengthen street‑tree protections, create replacement fund
Summary
The Madison Finance Committee approved amendments to the Madison General Ordinances to strengthen protections for street trees and establish a street tree replacement fund; developers and preservation advocates urged clearer language on the ordinance’s scope and enforcement process.
The Finance Committee on Aug. 25 approved an ordinance (Legistar 89254) that amends the Madison General Ordinances to strengthen protections for street trees and establish a street tree replacement fund.
Committee members and speakers said the change is meant to ensure trees that city staff and developers agree are worth saving receive enforceable protections. Mayor (speaker in the meeting) — a sponsor of the amendment — said the ordinance applies only to trees that the city and a developer have agreed to preserve during a development project, not to every street tree or to unrelated green‑street policies: “We are talking about the street trees that in the course of approving a development project, the city and the developer agree are worth saving.”
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