What to Do With the Trees? Austin Seeks Input
Big parks, small parks, streets: Austin is setting policies and priorities for its urban forest. Photo by I-Hwa Cheng/KUT NewsAudio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
How do you manage hundreds of thousands of trees spread across hundreds of square miles? In this week’s Changing Austin, KUT’s Matt Largey talks to Keith O’Herrin of the city’s Parks and Recreation Department about the prospective long-term plan for its urban forest, and what the city wants to know from Austinites.
Maybe they think we should be spending more of our time on greenbelts as opposed to developed parkland, or they think we should be spending our time on small pocket parks and neighborhood parks as opposed to the Town Lake area.
The city will have a public input meeting on the plan on Wednesday next week at 5 p.m. at the Northwest Recreation Center. The city’s website will also take feedback and has an opinion survey.
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