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Enhancing Healdsburg’s Tree Canopy
Large trees with significant canopy and coverage strongly
contribute to sense of place and reflect’s Healdsburg’s close
association with the natural environment. Larger trees also can
provide key shade elements during warmer months for parking
areas, pedestrian circulation, plazas or other outdoor places
included on a site. For these reasons, a project should integrate
large canopy trees into a site design whenever feasible. Enhancing
tree canopies is important everywhere, but particularly important
in non-residential areas.

7.36 Enhance a project by planting large canopy trees.
a. Carefully integrate large trees into a site so that their
benefit is maximized.
b. Place a large tree in an area that is highly visible from the
public realm.
c. Place a large tree in a common outdoor space to
enhance a tenant amenity space.
d. Locate trees near spaces where shade is needed.
e. Use large canopy trees to provide visual and physical
relief to the monotonous nature of a surface parking lot.

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