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Belgrade council adopts revised trees-and-shrubs ordinance, gives city forester discretion on tree spacing
Summary
City Council approved Ordinance 2025-1 revising the city's tree code, creating a city forester role and allowing that forester to set street-tree spacing; council approved the second reading unanimously.
Belgrade City Council on a second reading adopted Ordinance 2025-1, revising the city's trees-and-shrubs code to create a city forester position, clarify maintenance responsibilities for street trees and give the forester discretion over spacing and a tree manual.
The ordinance, which the city attorney presented at the hearing, replaces the city's inactive tree board with a forester who will prepare a publicly available tree plan and help the city enforce tree rules. "[The city forester] will create a plan regarding trees that will be available to the public to review and should clarify a lot of the rules and allow the city to enforce any issues that we have with trees," the city attorney said during the public…
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