San Jose is changing how it manages its shrinking urban canopy after an audit found the city is ineffectively preventing tree loss.

San Jose councilmembers voted unanimously Tuesday to change how the city collects and reviews permits to remove trees, develop procedures to enforce replanting requirements and identify large locations to replant trees.

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