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Petaluma tree advisory committee forms Protect, Grow and Engage ad hocs to implement urban forestry plan
Summary
The Petaluma Tree Advisory Committee voted March 18 to create three ad hocs — Protect, Grow and Engage — to carry out elements of the newly adopted Urban Forestry Management Plan and to support advocacy around the Tree Protection Ordinance; staff will report on grant funding and an urban‑forester position at a future meeting.
The Petaluma Tree Advisory Committee voted on March 18 to establish three ad hoc groups — Protect, Grow and Engage — designed to carry out work tied to the city’s recently adopted Urban Forestry Management Plan.
The chair opened the meeting and framed the item as a way to align subcommittee work with plan elements, saying the ad hocs would handle tasks such as advocacy and education around the Tree Protection Ordinance (Protect), tree‑planting and on‑the‑ground projects (Grow), and public‑facing materials and website updates (Engage). The committee then discussed membership rules and timelines before taking a formal vote.
Why it matters: committee members said the ad hocs are intended to concentrate volunteer effort on specific, short‑term projects — from educating councilmembers about unresolved ordinance language to organizing neighborhood outreach…
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