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Advisory board approves Naples Urban Forest Greenprint 2025
Summary
The Community Services Advisory Board approved the 2025 Naples Urban Forest Greenprint after a presentation detailing an updated inventory, estimated tree asset value and recommeded planting and maintenance funding; staff answered member questions about right-of-way plantings and private-property exceptions.
The Community Services Advisory Board on its January agenda unanimously approved the city's Urban Forest Greenprint for 2025 following a presentation from Heather Shields, the city's urban forest manager.
Shields told the board the city contracted Arbor Pro to update its tree census, surveying 30,021 sites across Naples and recording 20,323 inventoried managed trees and palms. "The inventory is estimated at a value of over $162,000,000," Shields said, and she added the urban forest provides "over 6 and…
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