Council may offer trees subsidies
Riccarton Borough residents will be able to buy trees to enhance their frontages if a special tree-for-tree subsidy scheme is approved by the Borough Council this month.
The council’s community affairs committee recommended last evening that $lOOO be allocated in the 1985-86 budget for trees subsidies to borough residents. Many local authorities had run similar policies for several years with success, said the community affairs officer, Miss Susan Hodder.
The council could offer a one-to-one subsidy which for $5, the average retail price of one tree, residents would be given two trees. Native trees could be bought wholesale by the council for $4 each, she said.
The scheme, which would probably be offered on a “first in first served” basis, could be beneficial to about 333 homes, Miss Hodder said.
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