First of two parts
After holding two well-attended community meetings to explore the potential of Culver City, aesthetically and otherwise, as an urban forest, a perhaps surprising number of residents are pleased with the sea of greenery that flows through and around their neighborhoods.
“People expressed a number of different ideas,” said Public Works Director Charles Herbertson.
“One was an appreciation of what we have right now in terms of aesthetic beauty.
“Many people said they liked what we called in the presentation a ‘mono-culture’ aspect, that is, driving down a street and seeing the same trees all the way along both sides of the street for several blocks.
“On Braddock Drive, for instance, we have Chinese elm on both sides of the street.
“People like that,” said Mr. Herbertson.
From the recent start of an ambitious, years-long project visionarily dubbed Urban Forest, Mr. Herbertson has emphasized that whatever changes are agreed upon will be gradual.
“At the same time, though, when we were talking about goals,” he said, “we discussed increasing the diversity of trees and urban forest. Those two don’t necessarily directly conflict. But we have to figure out how to make that work.”
(To be continued)
