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Tree Protection Ordinances
Ordinances are the strongest means available to a community for protecting its trees. Ordinances can safeguard street trees, ensure beautiful landscaping in commercial areas, and prevent woodlands from disappearing as shopping malls and housing tracts spread across the land.
Used correctly, ordinances can help provide a high-quality environment — without causing undue hardships on developers.
Tree protection ordinances and landscape ordinances can provide a community with both practical and aesthetic benefits.
In This Bulletin
Here’s what’s inside:
- Why Protection Ordinances? – the reasons behind ordinances for trees
- The Many Forms of Protection – examples of various city ordinances
- Lessons for Urbanizing Counties – advantages of strong ordinances as an area becomes more urban
- Protecting ‘Save’ Trees – rules that help keep trees healthy on a construction site
- Tree Replacement Formulas – finding a good method for tree replacement that is fair to developers and thinks about the future
- Tree Protection Ordinances Need Public Support – the importance of engaging community members