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City staff brief commission on new urban reforestation and tree protection ordinance and rollout plans
Summary
Burlingame staff and Parks Superintendent Richard Holtz briefed the Planning Commission on the city’s urban reforestation and tree protection ordinance (effective Jan. 16, 2025), explaining new protected-tree categories, a real-estate disclosure, an asset-management inventory and outreach to real-estate brokers.
Burlingame staff and Parks Superintendent Richard Holtz updated the Planning Commission on Feb. 24 about implementation of the city’s urban reforestation and tree protection ordinance, which City Council adopted in December 2024 and which became effective Jan. 16, 2025.
Holtz said the ordinance expands the definition of protected trees, brings city-owned trees into one consolidated tree code, and closes a loophole that allowed developers to remove newly planted replacement or reforestation trees immediately after planting. Under the new rules, trees planted as replacement or reforestation…
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