Portland City Code to Support Urban Forestry

This rule is Portland’s tree code and includes requirements relating to trees in both development and non-development situations with the goal of “[enhancing] the quality of the urban forest and [optimizing] benefits that trees provide.” The City has established the Tree Planting and Preservation Fund to facilitate tree planting, to ensure mitigation or tree replacement when tree preservation density standards are not met on a particular site, and to advance the City’s goals for the urban forest and intentions to achieve equitable distribution of tree-related benefits across the City. In addition, the City has also established the Urban Forestry Fund to replace street or city trees illegally removed or damaged, to enhance the urban forest through the planting of new street or city trees, and to increase public awareness of trees, tree care, and values of the urban forest.