Redding Nights Are Staying Hot.That’s a Problem We Built. Redding has always been hot in the summer. But the heat people experience in Redding is not only a product of weather and geography. How much of the ground is paved, how much tree canopy is left to shade it, and how much open land has…
As temperatures climb and Redding faces longer, hotter summers, preserving urban shade should be a top priority. But on May 20, the Redding City Council voted unanimously against implementing mitigation fees for removing native oaks during development—choosing not to hold developers accountable for canopy loss. This vote wasn’t just procedural. It was a clear message:…
SEA was able to get the GIS department of the City of Redding to work up some tree canopy coverage figures for several areas of the City of which we will give more details next month’s newsletter. We asked the City to drawn up maps for the core of downtown Redding running basically from between…