Portland City Council set to consider greater tree protections

By: Garrett Andrews//February 19, 2016//

Portland City Council set to consider greater tree protections

Garrett Andrews//February 19, 2016//

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Following several well-publicized demonstrations last year, the Portland City Council will consider further protections for trees.

The city’s Urban Forestry Commission and Planning and Sustainability Commission are forwarding separate versions of a similar plan to amend Title 11, the section of Portland’s code of ordinances titled 鈥淭rees.鈥� Both plans would do three things: protect more trees, raise fine amounts so that older trees are more expensive to remove, and require notification be given to neighbors when trees of a certain size are being targeted for removal.

Last fall, protesters pitched camp in several century-old Douglas fir and sequoia trees in Southeast Portland to keep them from being cut down to accommodate development.

The council on the proposed amendments at 2 p.m. on March 3 at council chambers at City Hall.

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