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A Conversation with Urbinden's Kevin Howard About Austin's Green Streets Initiative: Greenery in Cities is Not Just Nice, it is Essential

https://www.residenturbanist.com/p/conversation-urbindens-kevin-howard-austins-green-streets-initiative

Council calls for more trees and green infrastructure: On Thursday, City Council approved a step forward for increasing the number of trees in the city as well as promoting pedestrian and bicycle access throughout Austin. The vote was unanimous on the resolution sponsored by Mayor Pro Tem Leslie Pool. She particularly thanked architects Jana McCann and Kevin Howard “for daylighting this issue last fall and working with my team” to bring the resolution forward.

https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2024/03/council-orders-more-trees-green-infrastructure/; Austin Monitor, March 2024

Street Trees as Climate Resilience : An Austin-based urban designer explains how protecting and encouraging the planting of street trees will make the city more resilient to increasingly common extreme heat events, among many other benefits.

https://www.planetizen.com/features/122424-street-trees-climate-resilience; Planetizen, April 2023

Austin Environmentalists Want More Trees Planted Around the City to Combat Excessive Heat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_TI7ZOjWxA; Spectrum News 1, April 2023

Why aren’t there more tree-lined streets? Development professionals blame complicated city rules

https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2023/04/why-arent-there-more-tree-lined-streets-development-professionals-blame-complicated-city-rules/; Austin Monitor, April 2023

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