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CITY OF PLEASANTON URBAN FOREST MASTER PLAN | 35 <br />STATUS OF THE URBAN FOREST <br />1.4.5 Funding Pleasanton’s <br />Future Urban Forest Goals <br />Determining How to Achieve the City’s Canopy Cover Goal <br />Pleasanton’s total canopy is currently averaging <br />approximately 25% within the City’s urban boundary. <br />While this is considered above average for a city that was <br />historically in a grassland setting (Nowak and Greenfield <br />2020), the canopy cover is not evenly distributed and falls <br />below 25% in 26 of the 77 residential neighborhoods <br />(See Figure 2-3 in the Technical Assessment). Instead <br />of setting a city-wide goal to increase canopy cover, <br />Pleasanton plans to focus its resources into those areas <br />with lower canopy cover and has set a goal to achieve <br />25% canopy cover across all neighborhoods over the next <br />25-years. While this may seem like a small feat, it in fact is a <br />huge undertaking. This section summarizes a management <br />pathway that the City can take to achieve the goal of <br />reaching 25% canopy cover in all residential neighborhoods <br />over the next 25 years. <br />Management Pathway and 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 /> ƒFilling all 1,106 vacant tree sites in the targeted <br />neighborhoods (44 trees per year) <br /> ƒIdentifying or potentially creating and planting up to <br />2,076 new tree sites in targeted neighborhoods (83 trees <br />per year) <br /> ƒGiving out up to 2,500 trees to residents to be planted in <br />the targeted neighborhoods (100 trees per year) <br /> ƒDevelopers 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 <br />its standard tree services such as removing and replanting <br />an average of 175 dead trees per year, watering and <br />structurally pruning newly planted trees as part of a <br />three-year establishment program and pruning an average <br />of 4,670 mature trees per year to maintain a five-year <br />pruning cycle.