BY CONNOR PITTMAN
Replanting effort to give away 500 trees A Texas Arbor Day event at Glenville Park will be the final tree giveaway through the Richardson Replants program in 2024. The big picture Richardson Replants launched in the aftermath of severe weather this May. Staff plan to distribute 500 trees this fall, including Chinkapin Oak, Desert Willow and Peach. At the Texas Arbor Day event, staff will also plant 18 new trees in Glenville Park as part of a wider initiative to plant 100 new trees in city parks by the one-year anniver- sary of the storm, May 28, 2025. What’s else? A similar 500-tree giveaway is planned for the spring. The species of trees may vary.
Richardson eyes update of arts master plan The process of updating Richardson’s Cultural Arts Master Plan is expected to be completed around the middle of next year. Two-minute impact The arts master plan is used to guide the city’s support for arts programs, projects and services. A public survey was conducted through Oct. 6, which gauged community feedback on the city’s existing arts programs and funding strategies. City Manager Don Magner said components of the plan have been influential in various public arts projects throughout the city, specifically tied to allocations for public art with major bond projects. “It’s really the work on the initial Cultural Arts Master Plan that’s resulted in some really cool public art in the city,” Magner said.
Components of the master plan update
Analyzing the funding and resource allocation for how cultural initiatives and the arts are funded by the city Assessing current conditions for public art by analyzing facilities and public art Making policy recommendations on how to further support the arts in Richardson
SOURCE: CITY OF RICHARDSON/COMMUNITY IMPACT
What’s next? The updates are expected to be done in May or June 2025, Magner said, which is about a year after the study started. There are also plans to hold at least two public engagement sessions to gather feedback, similar to other major plan updates, before the revision is complete.
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