Councilmember Strauss introduces legislation to regulate 70,000 additional trees – but will the effort to boost canopy coverage to 30% slow down housing creation? After three years of work on the issue of Seattle’s declining tree canopy, Councilmember Dan Strauss (District 6) proposed legislation last week that would quadruple the number of regulated trees on … Continue reading Proposed Tree Protection Ordinance Hopes to Grow Seattle’s Canopy