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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


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Making Trees a Part of the Plan Overcoming
Obstacles to Preserve Trees in Your
CommunityTodd A. DegnerTuesdays at APA, 1-13-09
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GOAL
  • Help you clarify your vision for maximizing the
    benefits trees can bring your community

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20 YEARS FROM NOW
  • What adjectives do you want people to use to
    describe your community?

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CURRENT BARRIERS
  • In Many Communities, the Benefits Trees Offer is
    Rarely Recognized
  • Economic
  • Commercial/Industrial
  • Social
  • Private Property Values
  • Social
  • Environmental
  • Connectivity

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Economic Benefits
http//www.cfr.washington.edu/research.envmind/Tal
ks/Why20Trees20Matter_Ohio.pdf
  • http//actrees.org/site/resources/research/index.p
    hp

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Property Values
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Social 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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OVERCOMING BARRIERS
  • Provide a Unified Vision of the Benefits Trees
    Offer.
  • MASTER PLAN
  • Circle of Impact
  • Trees are the Solution to Many Strategic Goals

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CIRCLE 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

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CURRENT BARRIERS
  • 2. Trees are Viewed as Incidental Items, Not
    Critical Infrastructure
  • What is a Tree anyway

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What is Grandma Thinking!!!
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OVERCOMING BARRIERS
  • 2. Let The Community Know What Trees Are.
  • Root Appreciation Day/Arbor Day
  • Community Planning Opportunities Open to the
    Public

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Root 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
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Myth 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
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Myth 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
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Where are Roots?
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CURRENT BARRIERS
  • 3. Many Designers Developers Lack The Means
    and Methods to Preserve Trees

When did this tree fail?
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OVERCOMING BARRIERS
  • 3. Promote and Require a Unified and
    Collaborative Design Process for Development in
    Your Community.
  • Communicate
  • Investigate
  • Innovate

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KEY 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?
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KEY 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
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KEY 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?
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It is June and My Trees have fall color!
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When creating a plan, the little things mean a
lot.
Diesel Cans / Fueling Stations Washing
Stations Solvents Concrete Washout Stockpiled
Materials Parking Dumpsters
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Technical or Teamwork Issues?
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When 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 .

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L.A.s How do you communicate existing trees in
the base map?
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Now 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

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An Opportunity Realized
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Two 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.
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Root Protection Matting
Root Pruning Line
Protection is put in place early on, long before
Demo.
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TCOT Solution Addition built on piers over the
root system.
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SavedRoot
Adjusted Pier Location
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Grade Beam On Piers 6 Below Grade
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Compare this Mid August Photo to The June Fall
Color We Saw.
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CURRENT BARRIERS
  • In Many Communities, Vision and Benefits Lose
    Against the Budget and Property Rights
  • Polarization of Political Viewpoints
  • Collision of Morality/Philosophy

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OVERCOMING 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

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