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are found to exist. Therefore, the "weed" program does not have the ability to recover the <br /> full costs associated with providing the service. <br /> • <br /> In contrast, the tree planting program implemented by these administrative rules <br /> is intended to ensure that development standards and the goals of the Local Street Plan and <br /> Urban Forest Management Plan are met. The benefitted properties of street tree planting <br /> are easily identified and the program is designed to fully recover all costs associated with <br /> providing the service. <br /> Comment 18: The local arborist is prejudiced against perhaps the most popular <br /> street tree in America (flowering or ornamental pear) which nurseries can't grow fast <br /> enough. <br /> Finding: The Urban Forestry Management Plan policy # 1 states "the City will <br /> plant trees on public property that have potential for good performance and will, over <br /> time, achieve a diversity of species for greater stability of the urban forest" and Proposed <br /> Action #10.1 states, "Develop standards for minimum area requirements to ensure that <br /> trees of differing mature size classes can thrive along new and widened streets." The <br /> flowering pear is a popular street tree and it is on the approved street tree species list. Due <br /> to the need of species diversity, proper selection for the site, and the planting of large <br /> canopy trees along with smaller trees the flowering pear is not recommended for all <br /> situations. The flowering pear is a smaller tree with minimum canopy and it is identified <br /> to be used where appropriate in sites that have little room, are under wires or where a <br /> under story canopy tree is more appropriate. As with the Elm tree and the Bradford Pear, <br /> the flowering pear is now banned by many cities and we have to be very careful not to <br /> over plant one species just because it is popular. <br /> Comment .19: Landscaping and tree establishment is seasonal - dependent on <br /> weather. <br /> Finding: I agree. New trees have the best chance of survival if planted when they <br /> are dormant in the late fall and winter months. R- 7.280- D.7.1, which specifies the limits <br /> of the planting seasons for various types of trees, was included for just this reason. <br /> Comment 20: Do not require the establishment of street trees, landscape and <br /> irrigation systems until home is completed. <br /> Finding: Neither the Eugene Code, 1971 provisions nor the implementing rules <br /> require the planting of the street trees prior to the completion of the home. However, the <br /> Code provisions do place the responsibility on the developer to ensure the trees are planted _ <br /> and established. <br /> If the developer chooses to plant and establish the trees, the administrative rules set <br /> requirements for the developer to show how the trees, if planted early, will not conflict <br /> with later construction. If the developer to wait until home construction is <br /> completed, the rules require the developer to show how (s)he will track the completion of <br /> specific home construction projects and provide for the trees to be planted at that time. <br /> Street Tree Plan Agreement - City Plants Alternate - 11 of 25 9 9 " 0 0 4 0 5 <br />