[CANUFNET] Mature tree retention

[Ethier Elaine via CANUFNET]

Hello,
If the trees are considered like posts would be, and very close to the road or highway, they should be treated as conflictuel object for road/driver safety.

Can the road be diverted sinuously away from the trees ? Can road plots be considered in the road structure for water drainage and supply to the Maples ?

Some road strangulation patterns are made to force drivers to slow down. Designs vary into large sidewalks where oversized planter or trees 🌳 are planted. Could this be foreseeable in the area you are projecting the road ?

Elaine Ethier
Plani Gester
Aménagement, foresterie urbaine

Le 22 août 2018 à 15:33, Andrew Boyd via CANUFNET <canufnet at list.web.net<mailto:canufnet at list.web.net>> a écrit :

I suspect this situation is all too frequent for some members of this forum: an infill development is given municipal approval on the basis of an insufficient analysis of mature tree retention.  When upon closer scrutiny this analysis is found to be lacking the role of the consulting arborist (brought in at the 11th hour) is essentially to fit a square peg into a round hole.  In short, and without getting into too many specifics, has anyone had experience building a road over the roots of two mature sugar maples – 80-100 cm dbh (distance of road from base of trees is 1.2m!).  And, yes, the trees must remain.  I’m sure many of you can relate to my frustration.
Thank you.

Andrew K. Boyd, R.P.F.
Consulting Urban Forester
IFS Associates Inc.
P.O. Box 13593
Ottawa, ON
K2K 1X6
Tel: 613-839-0101
www.ifsassociates.ca<http://www.ifsassociates.ca/>
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