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Board backs I‑Tree analysis to prioritize plantings and quantify lost ecosystem services
Summary
Members recommended using I‑Tree to identify priority planting sites by heat-island effect, proximity to green spaces and equity, and to model monetary values of lost ecosystem services for outreach and council briefs.
Board members endorsed Maxwell's proposal to use I‑Tree to support the city's planting priorities and outreach materials. The suggested order for site selection was: 1) highest heat-island temperatures, 2) proximity to green space and proposed comprehensive-plan land, and 3) equitable distribution by census-tract canopy percentages.
Maxwell also proposed producing two ecosystem-service flyers: one showing existing canopy and one showing lost canopy and the estimated monetary value of services lost. The board agreed the flyers would be useful both internally (to shape strategy) and externally (to show council and the public concrete metrics), and suggested leveraging a GIS class assignment to produce draft analyses.
Members asked that any modeling use the most relevant base year (likely 2014 data referenced in the report) and that the outreach materials be ready for fall public meetings and council presentations.
