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Cedar Park partners with UT Austin landscape architecture program to study 'tiny forest' pilot
Summary
Cedar Park approved a six-month partnership with UT Austin’s landscape architecture faculty and graduate students to study feasibility, site selection and potential funding for a dense native-plant 'tiny forest' pilot.
The Cedar Park City Council heard a city manager report and presentations from faculty at the UT Austin School of Architecture to launch a six-month partnership to evaluate a ‘tiny forest’ pilot — a small, dense, native-plant assemblage intended to increase urban greening, biodiversity and public engagement.
Ashley Smith, city management intern, said the concept arose from council strategic goals to evaluate community greening and that the partnership will provide graduate-student research support to refine project…
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