{"id":362000,"date":"2026-07-05T18:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/362000\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T18:30:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:30:22","slug":"new-interactive-map-shows-shaded-areas-at-plano-parks-plano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/362000\/","title":{"rendered":"New interactive map shows shaded areas at Plano parks | Plano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data for the map comes from the city\u2019s 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plano.gov\/861\/Urban-Forestry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Forestry tree inventory<\/a>. The parks department created an <a href=\"https:\/\/content.civicplus.com\/api\/assets\/8090f97d-266c-46a5-ad6b-3d4f3ec7e4ce?scope=all\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Forest Master Plan<\/a> in 2017 to address the longevity of the city\u2019s trees for the next 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Tree shade can improve water quality, air quality and the aesthetics of a city, per city documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlano\u2019s urban forest is a critical community asset, with more than 43,000 inventoried trees forming the core part of the city\u2019s canopy,\u201d Angeles said in an email to Community Impact.<\/p>\n<p>Angeles said the city records tree removals, replacements and new plantings on a weekly basis. Residents are also encouraged to contact the parks department if trees are not accurately reflected in the shade map so that it can be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Data for the map comes from the city\u2019s 2023 Urban Forestry tree inventory. The parks department created an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[19044,160,162,161,721,720,104322,59102,104323],"class_list":["post-362000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-city-of-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-parks","tag-plano-parks-and-recreation","tag-plano-shade-map","tag-urban-forest-master-plan","tag-urban-forestry-plano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}