Cheryl Ball

The Knoxville Urban Forest Master Plan is a 10 to 20-year strategic plan for the city's urban forest. It aims to establish goals and initiatives for the coming decades, focusing on increasing tree canopy cover, ensuring equitable distribution across neighborhoods, and promoting tree preservation during development. The plan emphasizes the vital role of trees in improving public health, air and water quality, mitigating urban heat, enhancing walkability, supporting aging communities, and contributing to climate change adaptation. Key priorities include addressing current canopy loss, tackling invasive species, raising public awareness, fostering partnerships, and overcoming financial barriers to tree care.

The Knoxville Urban Forest Master Plan serves as a 30-year roadmap to strategically invest in and protect the city's urban tree canopy, maximizing its environmental, social, and economic benefits. Key objectives include ensuring the long-term protection and growth of the canopy, promoting species diversification for a more resilient urban forest, and addressing significant tree loss, particularly on private residential properties. The plan also aims to enhance tree equity across diverse neighborhoods by prioritizing areas with lower existing canopy cover and will rely heavily on strong community engagement and partnerships.

This Urban Forest Management Plan for the 4th & Gill neighborhood provides a community-driven framework to protect, expand, and manage its trees over the next decade. It outlines strategies to expand canopy, increase biodiversity, strengthen neighborhood education, leverage trees for placemaking and traffic calming, and enhance the neighborhood arboretum. The plan aims to create a healthy, shaded, biodiverse urban environment where trees are valued assets, thoughtfully managed by an engaged community in partnership with the City of Knoxville and residents.

This document outlines the City of Knoxville's 2026-2027 Annual Action Plan, detailing proposed activities and funding allocations for the program year. It aligns with the overarching 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan goals, which focus on transforming blighted properties, encouraging housing development, keeping people housed, and promoting housing fairness. The plan specifies how federal HUD entitlement funding and local general funds will be utilized to address critical housing, social service, and neighborhood needs for low- and moderate-income residents within the community.

This Bicycle Facilities Plan Update for the City of Knoxville aims to create a safe, connected, and equitable bicycle network for all users. The plan is guided by core goals of Connectivity, Equity, and Safety, which are informed by community feedback prioritizing safety improvements, enhanced connectivity, and support for everyday trips. It seeks to establish a comfortable, convenient network enabling residents and visitors of all ages and abilities to travel for work, recreation, and essential services.