[Summit] Apply for Neighborhood Street Trees by December 1st

[Jonathan Howard]

Thanks to David Kolsky for passing this along from the Mayor's  
newsletter.

The Mary Elizabeth Sharpe Endowment generously pays for trees to be  
planted in the area between your sidewalk and the curb. This is a  
great chance to get free trees in front of your house, beautify your  
street and meet your neighbors. City workers do all the really heavy  
lifting, so all you have to do is sign up some neighbors, show up on  
the day and do some light duty with a shovel. Payback: higher property  
values, summer cooling, beautified streetscapes and better air quality  
in our city.


Apply for Neighborhood Street Trees by December 1st
And don’t forget that the Trees 2020 Campaign is still accepting  
applications for trees on private property

The Providence Neighborhood Planting Program (PNPP), the street tree  
planting and maintenance partnership between the Mary Elizabeth Sharpe  
Street Endowment, the City of Providence and the residents of  
Providence, is extending their deadline to Monday, December 1st for  
applications to plant neighborhood trees in the Spring of 2009.
To receive street trees through the Neighborhood Street Tree Planting  
Award, neighborhoods should have:
- A volunteer to organize a Neighborhood Street Tree Planting Award  
application.
- At least five properties that each need at least one tree (minimum  
request is 5 trees) within an area of one to three city blocks.
- Permission from each property owner to plant each tree requested.
- A promise from each property owner or tenant to help plant their  
tree on planting day, water weekly and weed regularly.

PNPP especially encourages the following neighborhoods that are most  
in need of street trees to apply: Elmwood, Smith Hill, Federal Hill,  
Valley, Olneyville, Washington Park
Reservoir, West End, and Upper and Lower South Providence.

Applications can be downloaded at: www.pnpp.org.  For more  
information, email street_trees at pnpp.org or call 401-351-6440 x13.

In addition, the Trees 2020 campaign is still accepting applications  
for their Homeowner Tree Purchase Programgeared towards private  
property owners who want trees planted in their property.  Individuals  
can also make a tax-deductible donation to a gift a tree.  The  
application and more information can be found at http://trees2020.org/get-involved.php 
.

Since 1988, The Mary Elizabeth Sharpe Street Tree Endowment has  
matched Providence Parks Department funds to provide sidewalk  
preparation, new soil, trees, and tree delivery at no cost to  
Providence residents who apply and receive a Neighborhood Street Tree  
Planting Award.  Trees 2020 is an initiative launched by Mayor  
Cicilline and the Parks Department’s Forestry Division with the goal  
to plant and care for 40,000 new trees across Providence's 25  
neighborhoods over the next 12 years.

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