Fifteen-hundred trees are to be planted and grown on public land in Cuyahoga County in the next few years, the result of $1.2 million in grant rollout, county representatives said this week.
; along with a dozen other projects intending to keep parts of our canopy we've let go over the decades. (Cleveland got its tree
Yet, city and county specialists share similar anxieties about an aspect of grant dollars not easily influenced: the plots of private land that lie where the sidewalk ends."It's been my personal experience that residents have a wide variety of attitudes towards trees that shed leaves on their property," Jenita McGowan, the county's chief of climate and sustainability, told Scene.
In past years,"people were not interested because again, the maintenance of leaves and trees falling or limbs or other bad things—maybe they've taken trees down in the past? Yeah, I mean, there's a wild difference of opinions.
And strategy, at least in the Tree Plan guidebook, means planting saplings with an equity planner's lens: on streets and tree lawns in Lee-Miles, in Jefferson and Clark-Fulton, where tree canopy coverage is a third of what it is in leafier neighborhoods.
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