The City has been installing miles of new sidewalk to enhance connectivity in
older neighborhoods. An exemplary partnership between Forestry and the
City Engineer's Office has enabled the City to preserve many existing street
trees that might have been lost in less progressive times.
As a bedroom suburb, Upper Arlington lacks a true
downtown, but commercial districts are now being
redeveloped with multi-story mixed use buildings along
redesigned roads, creating a more urban streetscape
where commercial parking lots used to dominate.
Upper
Arlington
Quick Facts
• Humans: app. 34,000
• Street trees: app. 18,000
• Park trees: 23 parks, but
no park tree inventory
• Urban Forestry budget: it's
difficult to be too specific
because the Division budget
also includes parks maintenance
and horticulture. However,
I'd say about $400,000/yr.
• Number of Forestry staff:
Superintendent, Administrative
Assistant, Forestry Supervisor,
and three Arborists = six staff
(all of whom are Certified
Arborists, but < 100% of their
time is spent on forestry)
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