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Supervisors move charter amendment and parcel tax to return street‑tree care to the city and fund urban forest
Summary
A charter amendment and accompanying parcel tax were advanced to return maintenance and liability for San Francisco's street trees to the city, fund sidewalk repairs, and allow expansion of canopy by roughly 50,000 trees; the committee discussed funding structure (an $8M baseline plus an $11M parcel tax), a $5,000 cap for large parcels, and scheduled the item for further hearings and rules review.
Supervisor Scott Wiener introduced a charter amendment that would return maintenance responsibility and liability for about 105,000 street trees to the city, establish an Urban Forest Fund, and create a progressive parcel tax based on street frontage to pay for long‑term maintenance and sidewalk repairs. Wiener said the fund would be financed by a city baseline (about $8 million annually based on a 10‑year average) plus a parcel tax component; planning staff estimated an annual program cost of about $19 million to…
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