This 256.60 acre, 29Â parcel highway and riverfront package consists of rural commercial, industrial, residential, agricultural, farm forest and
timber resource zonings.
Urban forests can improve the quality of urban life and livelihood in many ways, providing both tangible (e.g. food, energy,
timber, fodder) and less tangible environmental and societal benefits and services, like its contribution to urban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer
zones and protection of urban water
resources.