City unveils street tree inventory and seven‑year community forest management plan

Arbor Pro, the firm contracted by the City of New Rochelle, presented the final street tree inventory and a Community Forest Management Plan (CFMP) to the City Council’s committee of the whole on May 6.

Oscar Corbera, a certified arborist with Arbor Pro, said the inventory (collected beginning February 2024) recorded 15,590 street trees and 2,233 potential public‑planting sites, representing 212 tree species and assigning a replacement value to the urban forest of more than $73 million. The work was funded in part by a New York State DEC tree‑inventory grant New Rochelle received in December (approximately $100,000), Corbera said.

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The plan reframes trees as public infrastructure: it prioritizes safety removals and backlog pruning in years 1–2, transitions to proactive cycle‑based maintenance in years 3–7, and ties future plantings to neighborhood equity and climate‑vulnerability data. Arbor…