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Lake Elmo adopts ordinance to create tree fund and approves boulevard tree program
Summary
The City Council adopted Ordinance 2025-16 to create a dedicated tree fund and approved a staff-proposed boulevard tree program that will use a $50,000 mitigation payment from Greater Stillwater Schools and future donations to plant and maintain trees in city boulevards.
The Lake Elmo City Council on Nov. 5 adopted an ordinance to create a dedicated tree fund and approved a boulevard tree program to pay for planting and related work.
City staff told the council the tree fund amendment would add a new section to the tree preservation ordinance establishing a dedicated fund whose primary sources are fee-in-lieu payments for tree replacement, council allocations and individual or business donations. Staff reported the city received $50,000 from…
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