The article says the DDP is planning to plant 500 trees. That is a great start, but the time table of 3 years is kinda long.
"Downtown Denver has about 1,800 trees. That’s good for a canopy that covers just 4 percent of the area. And that’s good for last place among the 20 largest cities in the U.S., according to the Downtown Denver Partnership.
Planting and maintaining 500 trees is a major investment — about $9 million — that will fill gaps in the sparse canopy but only to an extent. Bernstein said raising the shade cover to 10 percent would demand 2,500 more trees."
https://denverite.com/2019/12/08/den...ny-more-trees/
Isn't there some type of requirement for developers to plant trees along their developments? Growing a canopy is a big task for one organization, but seems pretty manageable if divided up.