Updates

Matthew Meiners

Comment:

1) Our city’s roadside trees and green infrastructure are crucial and valuable to me.
2) DOTD must budget for the replacement of all trees to be removed as a critical element of the I-10 widening project budget, not an afterthought.
3) Community trees within the proposed project area: Intercept almost 3,000,000 gallons of storm water every year; Collects over 1000 lbs. of greenhouse gasses and fine-particulate pollutants in the air each year; and Scrub almost 240,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the air every year.
4) All trees removed during this process should be accounted for and replaced at a patio of 3:1 In an effort to recover the loss of ecological and environmental services that the current tree provide.


Response:

DOTD will be replacing trees in accordance with their Significant Tree policy and will replant where, possible in coordination with Baton Rouge Green.