New Search
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 />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 />Findinlz: 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 />Findin>?: 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 elects 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 - 1.1 of 25 <br />