2030 Comprehensive Plan Update, April 2024

Environmental Protection

Action EP 5.1 Completed 2013

Action EP 5.5 Completed 2015

Action EP 5.2 Tree Canopy Study

Action EP 5.6 NeighborWoods

Conduct a city-wide tree canopy cover assessment; establish canopy metrics and tree planting goals; and identify strategies to improve Raleigh’s urban forest to help meet climate, sustainability, resiliency, equity, and accessibility goals.

Implement an alternating planting/ maintenance cycle to foster the long-term tree survival and financial sustainability of the NeighborWoods program.

Action EP 5.7 Tree Canopy Assessment

Action EP 5.3 Removed 2014

Assess tree inventory to quantify carbon absorbed; monitor over time.

Action EP 5.8 Converted to Policy 2022

Action EP 5.4 Utility Coordination

Coordinate with utility companies to plant, manage, and maintain healthy street trees that can establish mature and natural canopies without interfering with infrastructure operation.

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