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AGENDA ITEM - 3A <br />'It <br />-AII�)E_N HILLS <br />MEMORANDUM <br />DATE: July 28, 2025 <br />TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers <br />Jessica Jagoe, City Administrator <br />FROM: David Swearingen, P.E. Public Works Director / City Engineer <br />Anna Springer, Bolton & Menk Landscape Architect Project Manager <br />SUBJECT: Public Works Design Manual - Street Trees and Urban Forest Management <br />Budgeted Amount: Actual Amount: Funding Source: <br />N/A N/A N/A <br />Council Should Consider <br />Council should consider: <br />The recommended street trees to include within the Public Works Design Manual. <br />Direction to revise the Current City Code 360.32 to remove "invasive" type trees. <br />Proposed initiatives related to managing the urban forest. <br />Background <br />This item is mostly informative but to also allow for discussion and feedback based on Public <br />Works' recommendations. <br />Within the TCAAP Redevelopment Code (TRC) section 10.2 Street Trees and Streetscape (e) <br />"Preferred street tree species are identified in the Arden Hills Public Works Design Manual. <br />Arrangement of species shall be interspersed in order to prevent wholesale loss of street trees in <br />the case of disease. " The preferred street tree species list does not currently exist. <br />Below are the four boulevard trees included in the Highway-96 replanting project that initiated in <br />2022: <br />• 25% Honeylocust (thornless) - Gelditsia triacanthos var. inermis <br />• 25% Kentucky Coffeetree - Gymnocladus dioius <br />• 25% American Elms (resistance) — Ulmus americana "Valley Forge" "Princeton" "New <br />Harmony" <br />• 25% Hackberry - Celtis occidentalis, <br />Page 1 of 3 <br />