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Tree Board urges adding landscape and tree rules to the comprehensive plan
Summary
Bill Burnham, Tree Board president, reviewed two decades of volunteer planting and urged the planning commission to consider formal landscape and tree-replacement provisions in the comprehensive plan and land-use ordinances, noting available grants and Tree City USA resources.
Bill Burnham, president of the Tree Board, told commissioners the board was created by town ordinance in 1991 and has advised on public-lands plantings across Onancock, from the town square to Oneancock Landing Park. He described collaborative projects with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Center for Watershed Protection and listed recent plantings (wax myrtles, Spartina cordgrass and a bald cypress).
Burnham urged the planning commission to adopt clearer landscape and tree-replacement requirements so that future development preserves canopy and streetscape character. He said the Arbor Day Foundation's resources and state forestry grants (including Trees for Clean Water and USDA programs) provide technical and funding support to draft a local ordinance and help finance plantings.
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