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Committee approves temporary exemption for city infrastructure from Tree Protection Ordinance
Summary
The Finance and Executive Committee adopted a substitute ordinance exempting specified city infrastructure projects from the City of Atlanta Tree Protection Ordinance until a new ordinance is adopted, while requiring on‑site replanting to the maximum extent feasible and payment into the city's tree trust fund for uncompensated removals.
The Finance and Executive Committee on an amended substitute on Oct. 12 approved an ordinance exempting most City of Atlanta public infrastructure projects from the Tree Protection Ordinance until the council adopts a new tree ordinance, while requiring projects to plant replacement trees on site to the maximum extent feasible and to contribute recompense payments to the city’s tree trust fund for removals that cannot be replaced.
The substitute ordinance, introduced and discussed by Councilmember Hillis, applies the exemption to public infrastructure projects administered by Watershed Management, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Enterprise Asset Management, Atlanta BeltLine Inc., and the Path Foundation. "We started on one side and we have met in the middle," Hillis said, arguing the change…
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