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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Provincial Act: "Municipal Government Act, Chapter 18 of the Acts of 1998"</p>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Provincial act for HRM (Halifax Regional Municipality) "Halifax Regional Municipality Charter, Chapter 29 of the Acts of 2008"</p>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">** It is my opinion that this document is more important when it comes to defining what powers the municipality I live in has (i.e.: HRM), when it comes to powers over urban forests.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">HRM's powers are limited to <b><i>some</i></b> control over tree cutting for "landscaping, buffering, sedimentation or erosion control" -- see HRM Charter.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I am convinced that HRM has not been given sufficient power.</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">This is most clearly observed in HRM's Urban Forest Master Plan - Digest, page 14, item 4. "Development", which states:</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">"New development is a major challenge for HRM's forests, especially at the urban-rural fringe, where urban expansion is having a profound effect on the trees and their environment.
In HRM, many new development areas are clear-cut, graded and filled before construction occurs, removing all existing trees from the landscape and much of the soil needed for future trees."</p>
<p style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The picture beside this paragraph provides a graphic example.</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> CANUFNET <canufnet-bounces@list.web.net> on behalf of Mike Rosen <MRosen@treecanada.ca><br>
<b>Sent:</b> June 10, 2016 1:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Canadian Urban Forest Network<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [CANUFNET] Bylaws</font>
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Hello Canadian Urban Forest Network!</p>
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After returning from a major municipal meeting in Winnipeg (FCM) I can tell you that there is very strong interest in tree bylaws across the country. We at Tree Canada are familiar with tree bylaws in some provinces, but not all. Could you, if you have the
time and the information please send me information stating:</p>
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Your province</p>
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The provincial Act that allows municipalities in your province to pass bylaws on:</p>
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- municipal lands</p>
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- private lands</p>
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- other lands </p>
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We are hoping to accumulate information for every province (and territory). Please feel free to send any other information or web link you think would be helpful.</p>
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Thank you. Hope to see you all at CUFC2016 – early bird rates end June 15!</p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; color:#1F497D">Michael Rosen, R.P.F.| President/Président | Tree Canada/Arbres Canada
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt; color:#1F497D">470 rue Somerset St. West/ouest |Ottawa, ON K1R 5J8 | T: 613-567-5545 ext 222
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:mrosen@treecanada.ca" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="color:blue">mrosen@treecanada.ca</span></a></span><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt; color:#1F497D">/</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt; color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:mrosen@arbrescanada.ca" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="color:blue">mrosen@arbrescanada.ca</span></a></span><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt; color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt; color:#E36C0A">Growing better places to live
</span><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt; color:#1F497D">| </span><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt; color:#E36C0A">Des environnements plus sains prennent racine</span></p>
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<a href="http://treecanada.ca/en/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; color:#E36C0A; text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="264" height="69" id="Picture_x0020_1" alt="cid:image003.jpg@01CF1397.FBEF7F00" tabindex="0" style="-webkit-user-select: none;" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D1C314.ED20FF60"></span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt; color:#E36C0A">
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt; color:#404040">Check out the <a href="http://www.cufc2016.ca/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">
<span style="color:blue">2016 Canadian Urban Forest Conference</span></a> in Laval, Québec!
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<span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt; color:#404040">Serez-vous de la partie?
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt; color:#404040"><a href="http://www.ccfu2016.ca/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span lang="FR-CA" style="color:blue">Conférence canadienne sur la forêt urbaine 2016</span></a></span><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt; color:#404040">
à Laval, Québec! </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt; color:#404040"></span></p>
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