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City forester: survey of Parker View lot found ~39 trees and $30,450 mitigation under draft fee
Summary
City forester Alex Sherman reported a 50-by-150-foot, fully forested lot contained about 39–40 trees (totaling ~609 inches DBH). Using the draft $50-per-inch rate yields a mitigation estimate of roughly $30,450 to clear the lot.
City Forester Alex Sherman presented results from a field inventory at the end of Parker View Street, describing a fully forested 50-by-150-foot lot where crews measured trees larger than 9 inches in diameter. “There was a total of 609, inch diameter inches on the site,” Sherman said, and he reported an inventory count of about 39–40 trees on the parcel.
Using the draft mitigation metric in the SCANS summary—$50 per DBH inch—Sherman calculated the mitigation cost to clear the lot edge to edge at about $30,450. He cautioned that the example represents a mature stand and that smaller-diameter stands would generate much lower mitigation totals. Sherman also noted the single-lot inventory took about an hour, illustrating the technique’s feasibility on small residential parcels.
