RELEAF CEDAR RAPIDS
Replanting Our Streets Almost every street in Cedar Rapids lost a tree to the derecho. Many lost many, and some lost them all. To address some of the large gaps that now exist between surviving street trees and move toward the goal of a canopy that covers 30 percent of the land area in Cedar Rapids, the City will use tighter spacing when planting.
For large-species trees, gaps will be filled with trees that are spaced 30 feet on average with no gap greater than 40 feet or less than 25 feet.
For small-species trees beneath utilities, gaps will be filled with trees that are spaced 20 feet on average with no gap greater than 25 feet or less than 15 feet.
SPECIAL PLACES All streets matter, but some provide more opportunity than others for impactful replanting. Downtown streets, where most people walk but where the most challenges to planting can be found, and gateway corridors, where new rows of trees can have the most impact, are addressed in the ReLeaf Plan.
principal Gateway Corridors and plans for planting downtown streets on pages 70–72 of the plan at CityofCR.com/ReLeaf.
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