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Yamhill committee favors single-block urban-forest pilot to test costs and logistics
Summary
Members discussed planting a single block as a pilot for the town urban-forest project to learn installation costs, tree selection and maintenance needs. Concerns included overhead power lines, delivery-truck damage to poles and initial high costs for first installations; a site meeting was proposed.
At the March 3 meeting, the Yamhill Economic Development Committee debated how ambitious to be in the first year of a proposed town urban-forest program and coalesced around a pilot that would plant trees on one block in the central business district.
Committee members argued a single-block pilot is faster and more achievable than a townwide rollout: it would reveal the true…
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