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Tempe Planting More Trees This Weekend To Create More Shade

The city of Tempe will be planting more trees this weekend. The goal is to create more shade canopy on city property.

As temperatures continue to linger in the 90s, the city of Tempe is trying to create more shade by planting more than 100 trees near Tempe Town Lake.

Melissa Quillard with the city of Tempe says this Saturday’s effort has been in the works for more than a year.

"Staff has been working at the direction of City Council on the Urban Forestry master plan, which is in the final stages of getting approval. It hasn’t been formally adopted by council yet, but within that plan, the recommendation is for the city to have 25 percent tree canopy on city property," Quillard said.

Tempe received a grant to plant the trees. Quillard says there’s also an internal goal to plant 25 trees per acre at the city’s many parks.

KJZZ senior field correspondent Kathy Ritchie has 20 years of experience reporting and writing stories for national and local media outlets — nearly a decade of it has been spent in public media.