A Review on Integrated River Basin Management and Development Master Plan of ...
Deconstructing Urban Forest Master Plans
1.
2.
3. Management Plan Master Plan
Tree Population (Data) Public (Streets & Parks) Public & Private
People City Staff All Stakeholders
Goals Proactive Maintenance Shared Vision
Creation Timeframe 4 – 6 weeks 9 – 12 months
Implementation
Timeframe
5 – 10 years 10 – 20 years
Costs $3,000 - $10,000 $25,000 - $150,000
4. What Do
We Have?
What Do
We Want?
How Do We
Get There?
How Are
We Doing?
Criteria & Indicators
5. City
Planting
Budget
Total Annual
Street Tree
Expenditure
Pittsburgh $0 $816,400
New York City $8,160,000 $21,774,576
Minneapolis $223,855 $9,209,041
Charlotte $180,000 $1,819,460
Charleston $109,125 $531,200
The City
Utility
Companies
Non Profits
DepartmentsState
Residents
Business
Owners
More importantly it provides a shared vision for the future of the urban forest to inspire and engage stakeholders in the care and protection of trees.
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How can you manage something if you don’t know what you have?
One of the 1st decisions was to get as much high quality data as possible that would inform and be useful.
Initial catalyst for most of this project and fair to say Tree Pittsburgh was the original street tree inventory in 2005.
Why….inventory found backlog of maintenance (no surprise)….citizen outrage of removals….enter Tree Pittsburgh
The previous information was already existing. Majority of Urban Forest is on private land. If this is going to be a true “Master Plan” we can’t ignore the majority of the asset.
Let’s go private.
UTC done by University of Vermont