Tree Pruning Management Plan
The City of Ventura Urban Forestry Program is responsible for the pruning and maintenance of the City’s 30,000 public trees through a management plan that calls for pruning most or all of the trees within the city’s 24 pruning zones over a six-year period. Based upon staffing, funding and specific tree needs, yearly and long-term work plans are being developed with the goals of:
●pruning most or all of the trees within a given geographic region or zone
●targeting a specific number of zones for pruning each year
● for a targeted zone-pruning cycle of 6 years.
While it is our goal to prune all public trees, especially residential trees, within that 6 year cycle, there may be years where extenuating circumstances require recalculated decisions that could alter the length of time between pruning cycles. Our current 6-year projection of Zone Pruning can be viewed using
this interactive and searchable map.