View our amended tree code suggestions (side-by-side)

View the full amended tree code 

How to Get Involved

• Attend the April 16, 2025 City Council meeting 

• Speak during the meeting by registering for verbal testimony

• Write in your testimony on the Tree Code

• Email the Urban Forestry Commission: urbanforestrycommission@portlandoregon.gov 

• Email your City Councilors:

  • District 1

    • Candace Avalos: councilor.avalos@portlandoregon.gov

    • Jamie Dunphy: councilor.dunphy@portlandoregon.gov

    • Loretta Smith: councilor.smith@portlandoregon.gov

  • District 2

    • Sameer Kanal: Councilor.kanal@portlandoregon.gov

    • Dan Ryan: councilor.ryan@portlandoregon.gov

    • Elana Pirtle-Guiney: councilor.pirtle-guiney@portlandoregon.gov

  • District 3

    • Tiffany Koyama Lane: councilor.koyamalane@portlandoregon.gov

    • Angelita Morillo: councilor.morillo@portlandoregon.gov

    • Steve Novick: Councilor.Novick@portlandoregon.gov

  • District 4

    • Olivia Clark: councilor.clark@portlandoregon.gov

    • Mitch Green: councilor.green@portlandoregon.gov

    • Eric Zimmerman: via online contact form

An alternative to fines

Provide incentives instead of funding Code Compliance:

• In 2024, Urban Forestry requested $749,374 for 6 FTE (the equivalent of 6 people working full time) for "Code Compliance"

• There are 397 Heritage trees. Instead of funding Code Compliance, UF could provide $1887 in incentives per Heritage tree per year. If 4x the number of people requested incentives than there are Heritage trees, UF could still provide $471 per request.

• But Heritage trees aren't everything - UF tracks 218,602 trees in their Street Tree inventory. With UF being granted $152,000,000 from the Portland Clean Energy Fund, that's $695 for every tree.

Portland has precedence for this: Portland Water Bureau's Clean River Rewards program provides rebates even for planting trees:

https://www.portland.gov/bes/grants-incentives/clean-river-rewards

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