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City of Charleston’s ReLEAF pilot plants live oaks to cool heat hot spots
Summary
Mika Gadsden, the City of Charleston director of sustainability, described ReLEAF, a data-driven tree-planting pilot that planted 18 live oaks on Ashley Town Center Drive and 14 at West Ashley Circle, using NOAA heat maps and ArborPro data to target sites and plan for scaling with partner utilities and private property engagement.
Mika Gadsden, director of sustainability for the City of Charleston, told the county committee that ReLEAF is a city-led, data-driven tree-planting pilot designed to fortify canopy and reduce heat-vulnerability hot spots across the city.
"ReLEAF... is just quite basically a tree planting initiative," Gadsden said, adding the program relied on data from a NOAA heat…
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