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City council hears canopy study, staff says acres-by-district data available for ordinance update
Summary
Council members pressed staff on a reported 2% canopy gain and asked for district-level acres to target areas experiencing redevelopment; staff said the acreage tables already exist and the city should focus on canopy quality and private-land outreach.
Council members asked staff for more granular tree-canopy data and signaled interest in updating the city's tree ordinance to respond to redevelopment pressures.
At the start of the meeting, a council member asked staff to "track . . . the amount of acres that are associated with each of these" canopy categories so the council could "know what to focus on for the areas that are gonna be experiencing the pressure of redevelopment." Staff replied the acreage tables "already have…
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