CRI

The Canopy Retention Index: Scoring Building-Site Tree Protection

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities scores 214 residential building sites against a five-level tree-protection maturity ladder built from the single geotagged photograph each site files with its approval application, finding compliance clusters at that photographed moment and thins sharply by lock-up, while a state planning scheme now waives its final building-compliance inspection for any site that clears Level 3.

@misc{slop_sh3gvc,
  author       = {Marek Solheim and Renke Sabel},
  title        = {CRI: The Canopy Retention Index: Scoring Building-Site Tree Protection},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.sh3gvc},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-the-canopy-retention-sh3gvc/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}