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1.4.5 Funding Pleasanton's <br />Future Urban Forest Goals <br />Determining How to Achieve <br />the City's Canopy Cover Goal <br />Pleasanton's total tree canopy currently averages 25% <br />cover within the City's urban boundary, which is considered <br />above average for a historically grassland area (Nowak <br />and Greenfield 2020). However, the canopy cover is <br />not evenly distributed and 26 of the City's 77 residential <br />neighborhoods have canopy cover below 25% (see Figure <br />2-3 in the Technical Assessment), Rather than setting a <br />new city-wide canopy cover goal, Pleasanton aims to focus <br />its efforts on those lower canopy neighborhoods, with the <br />ambitious goal of achieving a minimum of 25% canopy <br />cover across all neighborhoods within the next 25 years. <br />This section outlines a potential management strategy to <br />help the City reach this goal. <br />STATUS OF THE URBAN FOREST <br />Management Pathway and <br />Projected Budget Summary <br />To achieve the City's canopy cover goal, approximately <br />6,300 new trees will need to be planted within those <br />26 residential neighborhoods that are lacking the target <br />canopy cover level (See Table 2-6 in the Technical <br />Assessment). The City is proposing to achieve the canopy <br />cover goal through a mixed private and public approach <br />over the next 25 years which includes the following: <br />■ Filling all 1,106 vacant tree sites in the targeted <br />neighborhoods (44 trees per year) <br />■ Identifying or potentially creating and planting up to <br />2,076 new tree sites in targeted neighborhoods (83 trees <br />per year) <br />■ Giving out up to 2,500 trees to residents to be planted in <br />the targeted neighborhoods (100 trees per year) <br />■ Developers planting a total of 625 new trees through <br />the permit requirements of their development projects in <br />targeted neighborhoods (25 trees per year) <br />This budget model also accounts for the City maintaining its <br />standard tree services such as removing and replanting an <br />average of 175 dead trees per year, watering and structurally <br />pruning newly planted trees as part of a three-year <br />establishment program and pruning an average of 4,670 <br />mature trees per year to maintain a five-year pruning cycle. <br />CITY OF PLEASANTON URBAN FOREST MASTER PLAN I 35 <br />