Title: Making Trees a Part of the Plan Overcoming Obstacles to Preserve Trees in Your Community Todd A. Degner Tuesdays at APA, 1-13-09
1Making Trees a Part of the Plan Overcoming
Obstacles to Preserve Trees in Your
CommunityTodd A. DegnerTuesdays at APA, 1-13-09
2GOAL
- Help you clarify your vision for maximizing the
benefits trees can bring your community
320 YEARS FROM NOW
- What adjectives do you want people to use to
describe your community?
4CURRENT BARRIERS
- In Many Communities, the Benefits Trees Offer is
Rarely Recognized - Economic
- Commercial/Industrial
- Social
- Private Property Values
- Social
- Environmental
- Connectivity
5Economic Benefits
http//www.cfr.washington.edu/research.envmind/Tal
ks/Why20Trees20Matter_Ohio.pdf
- http//actrees.org/site/resources/research/index.p
hp
6Property Values
7Social Benefits
http//www.pps.org/info/placemakingtools/placemake
rs/roldenburg
In the absence of informal public life, living
becomes more expensive. Where the means and
facilities for relaxation and leisure are not
publicly shared, they become the objects of
private ownership and consumption. Ray
Oldenburg
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9OVERCOMING BARRIERS
- Provide a Unified Vision of the Benefits Trees
Offer. - MASTER PLAN
- Circle of Impact
- Trees are the Solution to Many Strategic Goals
10CIRCLE OF IMPACT
- Who Impacts Trees?
- Planners
- Public Works
- Property Owners
- DBAs
- Developers
- Architects
- Traffic Planners
- Engineers
- Maintenance Personnel
- Whom do Trees Impact?
- Planners
- Public Works
- Property Owners
- DBAs
- Developers
- Architects
- Traffic Planners
- Engineers
- Maintenance Personnel
11CURRENT BARRIERS
- 2. Trees are Viewed as Incidental Items, Not
Critical Infrastructure - What is a Tree anyway
12What is Grandma Thinking!!!
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17OVERCOMING BARRIERS
- 2. Let The Community Know What Trees Are.
- Root Appreciation Day/Arbor Day
- Community Planning Opportunities Open to the
Public
18Root Investigative Study Report
- Technical Findings
- 23 WHITE OAK (white paint for photo)
- TOTAL ROOT LENGTH (est.) 50
- DIAM. AT DIST. FROM TRUNK
- 3 _at_ 10
- 1 _at_ 20
- .5- .75 _at_ 30
- .25-.5 _at_ 40
- END at Est. 50
Concept Design for Proposed Corporate Financial
Center National Rural Utilities, Dulles Town
Center, VA
19Myth Busters
- 15 Honey Locust
- root zone radius 34 feet
- Another root myth debunked
4th Annual National Capitol Root Appreciation
Day Manassas Park High School Manassas, VA
20Myth Busters
- Do tree roots really extend only to the
drip-lines? - What about taproots, mirror images, formulas?
First Annual National Capitol Root Appreciation
Day Rock Spring Park, Bethesda, MD- November
1992
21Where are Roots?
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25CURRENT BARRIERS
- 3. Many Designers Developers Lack The Means
and Methods to Preserve Trees
When did this tree fail?
26OVERCOMING BARRIERS
- 3. Promote and Require a Unified and
Collaborative Design Process for Development in
Your Community. - Communicate
- Investigate
- Innovate
27KEY 1 - Mandate from the Owner is Always
EssentialThe Owner Must Determine the Value of
Their Resources
Is there a mandate from the owner to save trees?
28KEY 2 - Understand Roles of Others on The
Development TeamA Seat at the Planning Table
Provides an Opportunity to Add Value
Plan for Trees Early on and Review Regularly as
Plans Change
29KEY 3- Success is only 10 Technical 90 Team
CommunicationDo all Members of the Team Agree
that Trees are a Design Element?
Client
Arborist
Architect
GC - PM
Superintendent
Landscape Architect
What Drives Tree Preservation? Personalities or
The Plan?
30It is June and My Trees have fall color!
31When creating a plan, the little things mean a
lot.
Diesel Cans / Fueling Stations Washing
Stations Solvents Concrete Washout Stockpiled
Materials Parking Dumpsters
32Technical or Teamwork Issues?
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36When We Dont Communicate
- This Tree Was
- Valued by the Owner
- Inventoried
- Put on the Site Plan
- This Tree is Dying Because
- No communication prior to design or construction.
- It was a dot on the Base Map.
- No .
37L.A.s How do you communicate existing trees in
the base map?
38Now the trees are infrastructure, not an
after-thought.
- Three things the CRZ does for us
- Defines reality
- Requires a response
- Opens a new communication opportunity
39An Opportunity Realized
40Two SUBSTANTIAL trees (52 48 DBH) flanking a
mid-1800s home in Maryland
Owner mandate to retain the trees. Design,
Planning, Construction staff met to discuss the
trees.
41Root Protection Matting
Root Pruning Line
Protection is put in place early on, long before
Demo.
42TCOT Solution Addition built on piers over the
root system.
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44SavedRoot
Adjusted Pier Location
45Grade Beam On Piers 6 Below Grade
46Compare this Mid August Photo to The June Fall
Color We Saw.
47CURRENT BARRIERS
- In Many Communities, Vision and Benefits Lose
Against the Budget and Property Rights - Polarization of Political Viewpoints
- Collision of Morality/Philosophy
48OVERCOMING BARRIERS
- 4. Provide a Unified Vision of the Benefits
Trees Offer. - Community Discussion that is Material and Amoral
- Future Vision, Fiscal Benefits, First Rate
Management of Your Community and its Assets
Should Guide The Process
49QUESTIONS