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<div>City of Peterborough</div>
<div>By-Law 17-120</div>
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<div>Permit required to injure or destroy trees 15cm dbh and greater.</div>
<div>Injury: seems to indicate a permit is required to prune protected trees
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<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; font-weight: 700">Injure
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">– means to injure or Destroy a Tree by any action that causes physiological, physical, biological or chemical damage to or the death of a Tree, but does not include pruning or removing branches in accord with Good Arboricultural
Practice conducted in accordance with a Permit. </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; font-weight: 700">Injury
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">or </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Arial'; font-weight: 700">Injured
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">shall have their corresponding meaning. </span></p>
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<div>Permit application fee is $300.</div>
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<div>View the by-law here:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.peterborough.ca/Assets/City+Assets/By-Laws/2017/17-120+-+Tree+Conservation+By-Law.pdf">http://www.peterborough.ca/Assets/City+Assets/By-Laws/2017/17-120+-+Tree+Conservation+By-Law.pdf</a></div>
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<div>I pity private Arboriculture enterprise servicing the Peterborough market. They are about to experience a recession, especially if pruning permits are required. (Looking forward to being corrected on this interpretation)</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kevin Mengers<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Advanced Tree Care Inc.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.advancedtreecare.ca/" target="_blank">www.advancedtreecare.ca</a></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">o. 905.478.2300</p>
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