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Roseville 2040 Chapter9: Resilience and Environmental Protection <br />Goal— Environmental Protection: Protect, preserve, and enhance Rosevilles water <br />land, trees, andpo0inators for current andfuturegenerations. <br />Strategies: <br />Land: <br />• Continue to use TIF to assist with environmental cleanup on sites identified as <br />economic development priority or opportunity areas. <br />Trees: <br />• Finalize and implement a management plan for ash trees on park land and <br />streets. <br />• Conduct a citywide survey, and inventory to the extent feasible, of the tree <br />canopy. This would include all trees in both public and private areas <br />• Modify procurement policies, as necessary, to ensure diversity of tree species <br />on City property. <br />• Promote tree diversity on public and private lands, including establishment of <br />diversity requirements, as part of any development of commercial or multi- <br />unit residential property. <br />• Expand tree canopy in priority areas. <br />• Create policies and procedures on propertree plantingforall City installations <br />and promote this to residents. <br />Pollinators: <br />• The City shall review its practices for the use of insecticides and use best <br />practices to limit systemic insecticide uses on City property, including <br />insecticides from the neonicotinoid family where possible, and will <br />encourage commercial applications to be free of systemic insecticides, <br />including neonicotinoids where possible. <br />• The City shall undertake its best efforts to plant native plants and plants <br />favorable to bees and other pollinators in the City's public spaces. <br />• The City shall undertake its best efforts to communicate to all Roseville <br />property owners, residents, businesses, institutions and neighborhoods the <br />importance of creating and maintaining pollinator -friendly habitat, and will <br />encourage residents and business to use the pollinator -friendly practices <br />including: <br />o Reducing the use of pesticides, including systemic insecticides, on their <br />property; <br />o Avoiding planting flowering plants that are treated with systemic <br />insecticides; and <br />o Planting more pollinator forage on their property and adopting organic <br />or chemical -free lawn and landscaping practices. <br />• The City shall provide information and avenues to identify pollinator -friendly <br />plants and other opportunities. <br />Chapter 1 Page 19 <br />