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Clarification on tree pruning and planting policies
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Council Member Restler seeks clarification on tree pruning and planting policies, leading to a discussion with Parks Department staff about the new approach to tree planting.
- There is initial confusion between pruning and planting cycles, which is clarified by the Parks Department.
- The new tree planting initiative is explained, with a cycle of approximately nine years to fill all possible planting spaces in a community board.
- The policy aims to be more equitable and efficient, but raises concerns about the long wait times for some areas.
Lincoln Restler
1:36:26
I'd now like to just shift to tree pruning.
1:36:28
So I was at Community Board one last week.
1:36:31
Thought a lot of talk about Community Board one today.
1:36:33
I was at Community Board one last week, and I was getting harangued by a constituent in South Williamsburg about a tree on on a number of trees on their block that they want to see pruning.
1:36:44
And I explained that the Parks Department recently rolled out a new approach to pruning that you all have said is gonna make things more efficient and operationally you know, improve things operationally for you all.
1:36:56
But I said that unfortunately, each area in New York City is only gonna receive tree pruning once every nine years now.
1:37:03
That the
Susan Donoghue
1:37:04
So the the new initiative we rolled out, council member, sorry to interrupt, is around tree planting, not pruning.
Lincoln Restler
1:37:10
Right.
1:37:10
Planting
Susan Donoghue
1:37:10
planting cycle has stayed the same.
1:37:12
It's every seven years.
Lincoln Restler
1:37:14
So if it's a if there's a request for planting that it's every nine years.
1:37:17
That's right.
1:37:18
So it's it's you've broken community districts down into three chunks, and once every nine years, you'll be coming to fill gaps where you identify a need for tree planting?
UNKNOWN
1:37:28
Sorry.
1:37:29
No.
1:37:29
During the nine years, the entirety of that given community board No.
Shekar Krishnan
1:37:32
But in
Lincoln Restler
1:37:32
a given that in the I don't know what the word is.
1:37:35
It's not a quadrant.
UNKNOWN
1:37:36
Or sort of waves or mean How do you describe a third
Lincoln Restler
1:37:38
of a community board?
1:37:40
Air What's a third of a community board?
1:37:41
Whatever.
1:37:42
In that third of the community board, you'll come once every nine years to plant a tree.
1:37:47
So if you came last year, it's gonna be at the end of the next decade end of the decade, nine years from now, that you're coming to plant a tree.
1:37:55
That's a question.
Jennifer Greenfeld
1:37:56
Yeah.
1:37:56
Okay.
1:37:57
Thank you again.
1:37:58
And we estimate that based on our tree planting opportunities now, it will take about nine years to fill all of them.
1:38:08
When we're done, maybe it won't take that long to get the next round.
1:38:12
We don't know.
1:38:13
Right?
1:38:13
So we're looking today based on what we know about opportunities that it will take us about nine years to fill every possible space in the entire But