Neighborhood Vision 2025
Restore & Grow MidTown’s Green Infrastructure
Beyond aesthetic benefits, green infrastructure helps to manage stormwater, improve air quality, provide shade and respite from hot summer temperatures, and even provide opportunities for growing food. This strategy seeks to provide equitable access to quality green spaces that allow residents to experience their social, economic, and health benefits. Recognizing that low-income and communities of color are disproportionately impacted by environmental degradation and pollution, at its heart, access to quality park space and green infrastructure is an environmental and restorative justice issue.
Restore & Grow MidTown’s Green Infrastructure
Action
Implement Midtown’s Tree Plan and Education Campaign
Grow MidTown’s tree canopy by adding 175 street trees, annually. Educate residents and stakeholders on the value of trees in mitigating air pollution and stormwater management. Explore creation of urban orchards in vacant spaces in MidTown to trees to be transplanted elsewhere in the neighborhood and provide shade and aesthetic value as an interim use.
Near-Term Actions
Create a Street Tree Request process for local businesses through MTC website;
Install 175 Street Trees each year.
Identify one vacant lot to be repurposed as an urban orchard.
Type of Action
Project Implementation
Looking For
Property Owners & Residents
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