Green Laws & Community Design

Design with Trees, Design with Nature, Design our Cities; Landscape Codes and Tree Ordinances

"This compact disk has been prepared as both a ‘Study Guide’ and a ‘Speaker’s Tool.’ It is the first such material ever designed in visual format and illustrated with text, photographs and drawings on the subject of municipal landscape law. The material has been written and produced in such a manner that it can be used by a variety of people with varying experience with community design, tree preservation, community landscape planting, and general zoning law.  The speakers tool and study guide can be used by experienced landscape code administrators to help them better understand the ‘structure,’ ‘design components,’ ‘technical requirements’ and ‘vocabulary’ of a well written and crafted landscape code or community tree law. Public officials can use this material to find ways to meet the demands of citizens who call for the protection of nature and nature’s waters, soils, vegetation, wildlife and beauty within the urban fabric. Volunteer, community Tree Boards and local Landscape Commissions can use this material to enhance their understanding of how communities write municipal legislation to preserve the urban forest canopy and find ways to re-supply the community with trees and landscaping.   Non-profit environmental groups and tree planting organizations can use this material to better educate the development community on how to protect trees, preserve natural resources and install new plantings on new commercial construction sites.  Interested citizens and citizen activists can use the material to lobby for adoption of a local landscape and tree laws that will preserve or enhance the ‘greenness’ and livability of communities large and small.  Students can use the material to better understand the problems of community design.   All interested parties may use the disk to study problems of community design that can be solved by the use of landscape codes.

"This study guide, as well as the, CD program are fully adaptable to local conditions of any community. People can add to, modify, or remove parts of the speaker’s tool so that it meets the conditions and needs of their community.   The slide show was prepared to be comprehensive enough for a community of one million people or more yet adaptable to a village of ten thousand. The slide show can be modified with the use of the study guide to be relevant to any pressing community design problems associated with vegetation, irrigation, tree preservation or on-site storm water management in the city." [from CD notes]

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