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<p class="MsoNormal">The City of New Westminster is working in developing operational policies to guide our arboriculture operation. Our current practices are that trees growing on city land are to be maintained exclusively by our arboriculture team or a contractor
hired by the city for that purpose. However, we find some grey areas when the subject trees are straddling property lines (i.e. boundary and shared trees), are located within an unopened laneway, or are inaccessible due to private property encroaching on city
land. I would like to know how other municipalities are handling the above noted situations and if there are any written policies in place to assist city arborist in decision making?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you in advance for your comments in this matter,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.05pt;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Sylvain Martel
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#595959;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">| Senior Arborist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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