The Noe Valley Community Benefits District means even more trees... and more!

Over the past many months, a broad collection of residents, merchants, and property owners in the vicinity of the 24th St. commercial district formed the Noe Valley Association Community Benefits District. The goal of the NVA-CBD is to use locally raised funding to support and enhance the cleanliness, beautification, security and promotion of our own neighborhood.
Encouraged by Mayor Newsom’s support of CBD’s in neighborhoods throughout the city, an effort was organized to establish a CBD in Noe Valley. Organized as a non-profit with an independent Board of Directors, the NVA-CBD was formally recognized by the city Board of Supervisors in August 2005.
While property owners provide the majority of the financial support, residents and the local business community are also providing substantial volunteer efforts to organize and execute a wide variety of programs all long 24th Street.
Guess what one of the first projects is? You got it: TREES!
Many of trees in the Noe Valley commercial district are in pretty poor shape: they vary widely in age, species and condition and besides, the area has room for far more trees than we have now. So we’ve consulted with Friends of the Urban Forest and with professional landscape architects on a pro-bono basis, and they have advised us that a major planting program would definitely advance the Association’s overall objectives. 
We aim to plant nearly 100 trees along 24th Street from Church Street to Douglas Street, plus along partial blocks on several intersecting side streets. With this planting, we seek both to improve the appearance of the street and to achieve the environmental benefits that trees provide: creating oxygen, absorbing carbon dioxide, and reducing storm water runoff.
If you have any thoughts about this planting or want to get involved in any way, again, please let me know.