vision 2025 i-244 and ok 11 landscape enhancement
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Why Trees?Enhance the quality of life in Tulsa :Clean Air means: • Improved public health• Healthier vegetation• Cleaner water sources
Working & Living among the urban forest means: • Boosted productivity in business• More outdoor activity in the community• Lower rates of childhood obesity• Lower overall stress levels of population
Why Trees?Reimagine and redevelop aging and obsolete commercial corridors and neighborhood centers.Beautifying an area means: • Raised property values• Reduced littering and vandalism
rates• Increased foot traffic.
Why Trees?Support Public Safety
Beautifying an area also means: • 40% decrease in crash rates• 48% decrease in property crimes• 56% decrease in violent crimes• 52% decrease in total crimes.
Why Trees?Begin to reverse chronically poor
public health statistics• Clean Air means: improved public health, healthier vegetation, and cleaner water sources.
• Working & Living among the urban forest means: boosted productivity in business, more outdoor activity in community, lower rates of childhood obesity, and lower overall stress levels of population.
• Beautifying an area means: raised property values, reduced littering and vandalism rates, and increased foot traffic.
• Beautifying an area also means: a possible 40% decrease in crash rates, about a 48% decrease in property crimes, about a 56% decrease in violent crimes, and a possible 52% decrease in total crimes.