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viii | CITY OF PLEASANTON URBAN FOREST MASTER PLAN TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 ANALYSIS OF CURRENT PLANS, POLICIES, AND ORDINANCES .....................................................................144 4.1 Tree Preservation Ordinance .............................................145 4.2 Review of City Design Guidelines and Standard Details ..148 4.2.1 City of Pleasanton Design Guidelines ........................148 4.3 Other Laws Pertaining to Trees ........................................150 5 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ........................................152 5.1 Summary of Public Input .....................................................153 5.1.1 Online Surveys ....................................................................153 5.1.2 Urban Forest Summit ........................................................158 5.1.3 Working Group ....................................................................165 6 REFERENCES ...................................................................164 Acronyms and Abbreviations ....................................................169 TABLES Table 1-1. Total Urban Forest Activity Expenditure by Fiscal Year ..........................................................88 Table 1-2. Comparison of Municipal Urban Forest Management Funding .........................................89 Table 1-3. Six Year Average of Urban Forest Expenditures by the City .................................................90 Table 1-4. Urban Forest Program Funding Sources for FY 2023-2024 .........................................................91 Table 1-5. City of Pleasanton Tree-Related Staff Positions and Their Cost .....................................................98 Table 1-6. Comparison of Municipal Urban Forest Management Staffing ........................................100 Table 1-7. Annual Service Data, Goals, and Gaps ...............103 Table 1-8. City Managed Trees Receiving Establishment Care by Year and Cost ....................................107 Table 1-9. Average Cost to Prune a Street Tree in Fiscal Year 23/24 ...........................................................109 Table 1-10. Infrastructure Conflict Action Menu ..................111 Table 2-1. 2022 Land Cover .....................................................118 Table 2-2. Canopy Cover Change (2012-2022) ..................120 Table 2-3. Canopy Cover by Land Use ..................................120 Table 2-4. Canopy Cover by Council District ........................122 Table 2-5. Canopy Cover by Tree Maintenance District ....122 Table 2-6. Total Number of Trees Needed to Increase Canopy Cover in Targeted Neighborhoods ..........................126 Table 2-7. Genus Diversity .........................................................131 Table 2-8. Species Diversity ......................................................131 Table 2-9. DSH Distributions in the Pleasanton Inventory...................................................................133 Table 2-10. Tree Conditions in the Pleasanton Inventory...................................................................134 Table 2-11. Tree Conditions by Tree Age of the Pleasanton Inventory ......................................................136 Table 2-12. Relative Performance Index for the Six Most Common Species in Pleasanton’s Inventory .......137 Table 4-1. Chapter 17.16 Tree Preservation Ordinance Updates .....................................................................145