Commercial

The total canopy cover area (7 ha) as a proportion of total Commercial land use area is 2.9%. Commercial land use comprises a large majority of non-vegetated area (77.3%) which is predominantly made up of buildings, hardstand areas and carparking. Vegetation of less than 3m in height (including grass) makes up 19.7% of the total Commercial land use area. Shopping centres in the suburbs of Forest Hill, Tolland, Kooringal, Turvey Park and takeaway stores in places like Bomen and North Wagga Wagga show higher than average canopy cover. Most planting that occurs on Commercial lots is in the carparking areas. Boorooma, Lloyd, Bourkelands and Estella all have Commercial zoned lots that are not yet developed. Figure 12 shows a breakdown of Commercial land use area and canopy by suburb.

Figure 12: Canopy cover as a proportion of Residential land use area. Total canopy cover over total Residential land use area is 9.3%