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5. Urban Forestry

4.1 – Protect Colleyville’s semi-rural character
4.3 – Adopt best-practice planning and development processes
5.1 – Create and sustain an identi able Colleyville brand

The Community Development Department understands that the presence of mature trees throughout the city are unique and
important assets to our community. Urban forestry, the careful care and management of urban forests, such as tree populations in
urban settings for the purpose of improving the urban environment, is an overarching goal of the Community Development
Department operations. Colleyville has been recognized as a “Tree City USA” by the Arbor Day Foundation consecutively for the
past 20 years. The City of Colleyville is also “Gold” certi ed through Scenic City Texas. Community Development proactively
preserves and protects trees through construction and improvements.

The Urban Forester performs tree evaluations, tree inventories, and identi es maintenance needs, in conjunction with the Parks
Department, that increase the safety of park patrons and property.

Performance Measures & Vital Statistics

Performance Measures FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022
Percentage of
residential plan reviews 45% 46% 47% 39% 33%
completed in seven 84%
days or less (was 5 (891 reviews) (865 reviews) (1,093 reviews) (1,325 reviews) (538 reviews)
through FY16)
Percentage of
commercial plan
reviews completed in 80% 51% 65% 60% 74% 34%
seven days or less (182 reviews) (291 reviews) (249 reviews) (220 reviews) (91 reviews)
(was 10 through FY16)
Percentage of
inspections performed 98% 90% 94% 98% 98% 90%
within 24 hours
Percent of online
department survey 100% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
respondents satis ed [No longer
with overall service used]

FY 2022
Vital Statistics FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019 FY 2020 FY 2021
Number of Inspections 9,978 11,981 10,519 7,321 6,971 6,495
Performed

5-Year + Outlook
Development activity is expected to remain robust. New commercial construction has remained relatively consistent
coming out of the last recession with an average of 6 new commercial permits per year. New residential has slowed
with an average of 101 new residential permits per year but trending downward.

Fiscal Year New Residential New Commercial
136 permits 2 permits
FY2017
163 permits 2 permits
FY2018
116 permits 11 permits
FY2019
86 permits 6 permits
FY2020
61 permits 2 permits
FY2021
44 permits 11 permits
FY 2022

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