The subject of scheduled trees was before the six-person 2GP hearings panel last week.
Council senior landscape architect Barry Knox proposed including a further 14 trees on the city's significant trees schedule.
Resource consent is required before carrying out maintenance on or removing a scheduled tree.
Mr Knox also reviewed the existing schedule, visiting sites to view more than 1200 individual trees and more than 100 groups of trees. The work was performed in 2013 and 2014.
As part of the work to develop the policies and recommendations for scheduled trees within the 2GP, the council also called for nominations to include new trees on the schedule.
The council received 65 nominations and those trees were then assessed for their suitability for inclusion on the schedule.
Seventeen trees were deemed to be significant and of those, 14 had the consent of the landowners to include them on the schedule.
More than 20 people and organisations will speak on the subject of scheduled trees during the hearings.
The panel - chaired by independent commissioner David Collins, includes independent commissioner Gary Rae and councillors David Benson-Pope, Aaron Hawkins, Jinty MacTavish and Kate Wilson - will make its
recommendations on the 2GP following the final hearings in February.
The 2GP district plan is the proposed suite of rules which will govern land use in the city.
The council received about 1500 submissions and more than 800 people are expected to speak to their submissions during the coming months.
The hearings are expected to finish in late February when the panel will consider the issue of urban land supply.
Significant trees
Trees nominated for inclusion on the significant trees schedule under the Dunedin City Council's 2GP district plan
• Black beech at 118 London St.
• Kowhai at 149 Helensburgh Rd.
• Weeping elm at 36 Granville Tce.
• Lebanese cedar at 28 Bellevue St.
• Red beech at 3 Pitt St.
• Tulip tree at 24 Mount St, Waikouaiti.
• Silver birch at 17 Maryhill Tce.
• Elm at 110 Frederick St.
• Horizontal elm at 17 Melrose St.
• Kowhai at 144 Queen St.
• Kauri at 153 Glenpark Ave.
• Ngaio at 248 High St.
• Silver birch at 77 Riccarton Rd West.
• Walnut at 77 Riccarton Rd West.
