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TO:
FROM: Steven Wiley, Assistant Planner
DATE: April 2, 2018
RE: Adopt an Internal Department Policy to Install Terrace Trees during Street
Reconstructions
BACKGROUND
During the fall 2017 semester, UW-Oshkosh Environmental Studies students worked with the
Sustainability Advisory Board on four projects. One student group researched and created a
terrace tree proposal that would allow for the installation or re-installation of terrace trees
during street reconstructions. The student recommendation involved the creation of an
ordinance or an internal department policy to allow for terrace trees. Students presented this
proposal at the December 4th, 2017 SAB meeting. Staff then discussed the terrace tree proposal
internally and with the SAB and together decided that an internal department policy would be
most appropriate given the recent updates to the Trees and Vegetation chapter of the
Municipal Code.
RECOMMENDATION
The City of Oshkosh Sustainability Advisory Board recommends that an internal department
policy be developed to install terrace trees whenever streets are rebuilt and where it is suitable
to include terrace trees as a landscape amenity. Costs for the purchase and installation of
terrace trees in these locations would be included as part of the street reconstruction
assessment to property owners. Determination of the practicality and specifics of tree planting
within these project areas will be made by the Department of Public Works, Engineering
Division along with the Department of Parks, Landscape Operations Division.
Respectfully Submitted, Approved:
Steven Wiley Mark A. Rohloff
Assistant Planner City Manager
City Hall,215 Church Avenue P.O. Box 1 130 Oshkosh,W 154903-1 130 920.236.5000 http://www.ci.oshkosh.wi.us