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NC Green Industry Water Symposium
Tim Porter, City Arborist
Marc Recktenwald, WQ and Env. Permitting Program Manager
City of Charlotte
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Preview
• Quick Facts about Charlotte
• Green Initiatives
• Charlotte’s Trees and Green Infrastructure
• Tree Canopy Resources
• Tree Partnerships
• Federal, State, and Local Water Quality Drivers
• GI Watershed Improvement Tools
• Implementation
• Partnerships
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Charlotte Quick Facts
• Streams 1,376 miles
• Area 308 sq. miles
• Elevation 751 ft.
• Population 809,000 (17th)
• Metro Population 2.3 million (22nd)
• Population Density 2,663/sq. mi
• Fastest Growing City 8th
• Airport traffic 8th
• Second Largest Banking Center in US
• Major Redevelopment in Uptown and along Transit Corridors
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Charlotte Choices
• Attract business and control costs
• Incentivize redevelopment and revitalization
• Build mass transit, desired development patterns, and walk-able communities
• Protect and improve air, water, trees, open space
• Create attractive and livable places; an urban community of choice
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Green Initiatives
• 50% Tree Canopy by 2050
• All waters swimmable and fishable by 2050
• In-Lieu Fee Programs for Storm Water, Tree Save, and Natural Areas
• Stream and Wetland Mitigation Bank
• Open Space Requirements
• Transit Service Area
• Business Corridor Revitalization
• Bicycle Requirements
• Bike Lanes
• Greenways
• Cross Charlotte Trail
• Recycling Requirements
• Bike Share
• Redevelopment PCSO
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Charlotte’s Trees as Green Infrastructure
• City of Charlotte views public trees as green infrastructure
• There’s work to do
• View needs to be developed and better integrated into City’s management strategies
• 50% tree canopy coverage of entire City of Charlotte by 2050…………aka “50 by 50”
• We know trees aren’t the answer to every problem, but one of the tools to help move the needle
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Value of Trees in Charlotte
• 1977: First City Arborist Hired
• 1979: Tree Ordinance Established
• 2001: First Digital Tree Inventory
• 2002: First GIS Canopy Analysis – 40+ % decline in canopy over 20 years
• 2008: GIS Canopy Analysis – – 3% decline in canopy over 7 years
• 2011: City Council adopts 50 x 50 goal
• 2011: Major Tree Ordinance Revisions
• 2012: TreesCharlotte is formed
• 2014: GIS & LiDAR Canopy Analysis – – 47% canopy
• 2012 - 2015 : TreesCharlotte Success
• Tree Canopy Preservation Program
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Mecklenburg County Quality of Life Study
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Urban Forestry Master Plan
Community-Driven Urban Forestry Management Plan
• A high level playbook targeting all stakeholders and all areas public and private
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A Master Plan Is Created by All Stakeholders
• Promotes awareness of the urban forest resource.
• Fully describes the community’s urban forest goals.
• Creates a plan to reach the community’s goals and
defines responsibilities: “a playbook”.
• Embeds success measures into the plan.
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Urban Forestry Master Plan
• Holistic planning for the future
• Need to get beyond the basic “Trees are Good!” mindset
• Of course they’re good, but WHY? – Benefits – environmental, social and economic
• Ok…..now we’re going to monitor the WHY…….get data……and refine goals, strategies, development requirements, etc.
• Tools used: – UFMP, i-Tree, GIS, partnerships, new research, feedback from
professionals/community, collaborate with in-house professionals
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Partnerships
• The City of Charlotte’s greatest impact with trees is on public property….that won’t cut it…….need partners
• Mecklenburg County
• Catawba Lands Conservancy
• City of Charlotte – all departments especially Storm Water Services
• Researchers
• TreesCharlotte
• Charlotte Community
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TreesCharlotte Collaborative
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Resilient & expansive
urban forest for
generations
City of Charlotte
Technical expertise & support, street tree
programs and capital project planting
TreesCharlotte
Private capital for trees; education &
community engagement
Community Partners
Planting & tree care by volunteers,
neighborhood groups
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TreesCharlotte is a non-profit partner with the City to grow and diversify Charlotte's urban forest by planting 500,000 trees by 2050, promoting
tree stewardship and educating how to plant and preserve trees.
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Tree Planting Locations & Tree Counts
15 Plus about 12,000 seedlings
Schools, 5,922
NeighborWoods, 5,904
Faith Campuses & Other, 1,467
Housing Projects, 914
Parks, 274 Stewardship Events, 113
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Planting Locations
The larger dot
locations have a
higher concentration
of planted trees.
Progress 2012 - 2015
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City Roles: Protection
Tree Ordinance
Tree Canopy Preservation Program Acquired: 60+ acres
Negotiating: additional 130+ acres
iTree Canopy Benefit
Air Pollution Removed:
21,595 tons
Stormwater Intercepted: 23,619,808
gallons
Carbon Dioxide
Sequestered: 579,449 tons
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City Roles: Planting
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City Roles: Regulation
• Natural areas • Stream buffers • Zoning buffers • Tree save • Open space • Parking lot trees • Green roof installations • Preservation of street trees • Planting of new street trees • Wet ponds and bio-retention
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• Multi-family development • Site area = 24 ac • Tree Save, Natural Area, SWIM/PCO Buffer = 5.8 ac
or (24% of site) • Trees required to be planted/protected = 125
Regulation
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City Roles: Maintenance
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City Roles: Pest/Disease Management
Cankerworm
• 2016 counts completed
• Monitor defoliation levels
• Monitor Fiery Searcher Beetle
Emerald Ash Borer
• Invasive non-native insect
• Kills all ash trees in affected areas
• Ash is small part of Charlotte’s
urban forest
• Statewide quarantine
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City Role: Aging Canopy
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Charlotte’s Trees as Green Infrastructure
• There’s work to do……..we’re starting to do it
• View needs to be developed and better integrated into City’s management strategies
• We know trees aren’t the answer to every problem, but one of the tools to help move the needle
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Federal, State, and Local Water Quality Drivers
• National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) – stormwater and wastewater regulations
– Post Construction Stormwater Ordinance (PCSO) and PCSO Fee-in-lieu
• 404/401 Permits – Requirements to mitigate impacts to streams and wetlands
• Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) – Sediment and bacteria
• Water Supply Watershed Protection
• Endangered Species Act – Carolina Heel Splitter
• City Council Goals – All City surface waters to be swimmable and fishable by 2050
– “Charlotte will become a national leader in environmental sustainability, preserving our natural resources while balancing growth with sound fiscal policy”
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GI Watershed Improvement Tools
• City Planning
• PCSO Program – Development and Redevelopment Requirements
– Charlotte BMP Manual
– Redevelopment Incentives
– Fee In-Lieu Program
• Stream and Wetland Mitigation Bank
• Pollution Control Community Improvement Program (CIP)
• Stream Restoration CIP Program
• Pilot Stormwater Control Measure (SCM) Program
• Education and Outreach Program
• Strategic and Watershed Planning
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Implementation
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Implementation
• 54 Stormwater Control Measures Constructed
• 4 SCMS in Planning
• 14 Miles of Stream Mitigation Constructed
• 9 Miles of Stream Mitigation in Planning
• Focusing on Watershed Restoration/Improvement
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Aligning Growth with Green Surface Water Opportunities
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Brier Creek-Chantilly Aligning Growth with
Green Partnership Opportunities