City approves 'Treebate' program
Starting today, if you plant a tree you can get as much as $50 off your utility bill. It's part of the Bureau of Environmental Services' new Treebate program that the city approved Wednesday morning.
Mature trees help suck up hundreds of gallons of rainwater every year, reducing the strain on sewers and local rivers and streams.
The City Council enacted the rule effective immediately because we are entering the best time of the year to plant trees.
(Thanks to Flickr user sburt for the photo)
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Grand fir ..
here's your list of acceptable trees off their form.. try using " click" instead of whine.

If this is like the existing tree program, you are required to choose from an approved list of trees, and then some bureaucrat decides if it's the right tree for your neighborhood, amount of light / shade, etc. Other than digging the hole, you don't have a lot of control over the situation; especially once the tree has been planted.
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