[CANUFNET] Compensation for removal of municipally-owned trees

[Kat Hodgins]

Hello Alex.  In reply to your questions, for the Corp. of the City of Brantford:

 1.       Does your municipality seek compensation for municipally-owned trees removed through development on private lands?

Yes 

2.       If so, do you seek (A) to cover removal/replacement costs, (B) amenity value, (C) both amenity and removal/replacement, or (D) other?

If permission is granted in advance, we recover cost of removal, and a 3 for 1 replacement cost.

If permission is not granted in advance and/or a tree that was designated for protection is removed, we may, at our discretion, etiher apply the method above or "pay to the City as compensation for the tree or trees to be removed in an amount equal to the value thereof as determined in accordance with themost recent shade tree  valuation formula as set out by the Ontario Shade Tree Council."


3.       If your municipality seeks to recover (B or C) amenity value, do you determine amenity value using (A) the Council of Tree and Landscape Appraisers (CTLA) Trunk Formula Method (TFM), or (B) an alternate method? 

 As above, ""pay to the City as compensation for the tree or trees to be removed in an amount equal to the value thereof as determined in accordance with themost recent shade tree  valuation formula as set out by the Ontario Shade Tree Council."


4.       Can you provide some more details about the method you use (e.g., TFM by-the-book, TFM with modifications, negotiated value, etc.)?

 

5.       Can you provide any comments about the successes/challenges in seeking compensation for the removal of municipally-owned trees?

With buy in from our planning and current development departments, we are generally successful in applying the costs + 3 for 1 replacement method.  Planning will not release the hold back security until forestry has also signed off that we are satisfied.

Thanks for asking the question; I will be interested to see the other responses.

Kat Hodgins
ISA Certified Arborist ON-1720A
Urban Forestry Technician


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