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Just a note for Abby Jordon and others on ordinances and other possible
assistance with open space, sustainability issues.
The WEB site from Louisiana State University is developing a database for
landscape and tree ordinances. You can access it at:
http://www.design.lsu.edu/greenlaws
This is some of the same material published about two years ago. You should also
get a copy of the California Department of Forestry and Fire
Protection publication titled "Guidelines for Developing and Evaluating
Ordinances". For a copy... contact the Urban Forestry Coordinator
for California at e-mail address: eric_oldar@fire.ca.gov
This publication is much more than "boilerplate" language; it provides
recommendations for the "procedure" to develop an effective, local ordinance.
Both of these last two messages are examples of the information disseminated
from the URBNRNET listserv out of University of Georgia. Contact Bill Hubbard,
whubbard@uga.cc.uga.edu to request access.
A community sustainability site to review is:
http://www.sustainable.org/
This is located in North Carolina and during the past 6 months has developed a
site with many case studies on successful communities.
And finally, for WEB sites, the Center for Watershed Protection at:
http://www.pipeline.com/~mrrunoff/
has excellent material, on-line in addition to their printed (for sale)
material. This is primarily related to stormwater management. An additional
watershed site is:
http://ingis.acn.purdue.edu:1066/cticmain.html
They also publish the "Know Your Watershed" newsletter. If you are dealing with
watershed issues, both of these are excellent sources of information.
Closer to home (Atlanta for Abby) is a regional office the the Trust for Public
Land. I believe that Atlanta is one of their Green Cities Initiative sites.
Other supportive organizations may be Trees Atlanta or Parkpride Atlanta.
The Georgia Forestry Commission no longer has "urban foresters" on staff, but
"urban/rural interface" foresters work throughout the Atlanta area. Joe Burgess
in the Marietta office has significant ordinance experience. Contact the sate
office for his number and address at 1-800-GATREES.
In Georgia, as is the case for every state, is an Urban Forest Council (some use
other titles). The Georgia Urban Forest Council (GUFC) can be contacted at P.O.
Box 961, Macon 31202 or the Executive Director, Melanie McDonald, can be reached
at (912) 987-2736. Asked to put on the mailing list and for a membership
application form. Their next meeting will be an all day workshop on utility line
pruning practices (conducted by the NAtional Arbor Day Foundation) on December
11th. The annual awards luncheon will be held in conjunction with this workshop.
The next quarterly meeting the GUFC will be about the third week of January.
--
Dudley R. Hartel, Consulting Urban Forester
http://www.negia.net/~drhartel
1339 Madison Street
Comer, Georgia 30629-4001
706.783.3984 Voice & FAX
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