The final plan includes a vision, five goals and 14 strategies.
STRATEGY 3 : Integrate all urban forest asset classes into the City’s broader asset management approach Action 3-5: Ensure current urban forest inventory information is available to support asset management integration and sustainable urban forest management operations. Why: Current and complete tree inventory information is foundational to a proactive maintenance regimen and a key input into an informed risk management approach. STRATEGY 6 : Transition from a reactive to a proactive urban forest management paradigm Action 6-1: Shift to a proactive seven-year pruning cycle for urban street trees. Why: Seven-year grid pruning cycle is an industry-standard and is conformed to be effective by several of Vaughan’s peer communities. A meaningful proactive maintenance regimen is known to extend the life cycle of street trees, optimizing the community benefit for public investment and is known to reduce the costs associated with clean-up following storm events. STRATEGY 10: Increase the rate of new tree planting to support achievement of the canopy cover target
Action 10-5: Increase planting rates to 1,400 net new trees (i.e. in addition to all replacements), per year on City property, mainly urban boulevards and parks. Action 10-6: Explore strategic partnerships with Local Enhancement Appreciation of Forests (LEAF) toward enhancing canopy cover on private land.
Why: Canopy modeling has assumed the City will maintain a minimum rate of 1,400 net new trees per year toward supporting a 25 per cent city-wide canopy cover target by 2051. Why: Canopy change on private land will decide whether Vaughan hits or misses its canopy cover target. Strategic partnerships with organizations like LEAF could enhance the City’s influence over canopy cover on private property.
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