[CANUFNET] Trees and Capital Construction

[Corkum-Gorrill, Jessika]

Hi Crispin,

A fairly recent change for us is to have an urban forestry staff person at the table with Planning when reviewing streetscape projects that will have City-owned and Heritage tree impacts (or opportunity for enhancements!). Also, in addition to the public tree bylaw, the City's Construction Site Management bylaw outlines the need to protect City trees in a Construction Management Plan. We don't have anything formalized for capital project tree replacements and assess on a case by case basis, asking for anywhere from 1:1 - 3:1 replacement ratio. We are in the process of working with MNAI on a natural asset inventory. The hope is that once we have this we can be better equipped for protecting and enhancing the city's green infrastructure.

Take care,
Jessika


Jessika Corkum-Gorrill
Forest and Environmental Officer

City of Charlottetown
PO Box 98, 199 Queen Street
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
C1A 7K2
902-629-4122
jcorkumgorrill at charlottetown.ca<mailto:jcorkumgorrill at charlottetown.ca>
www.charlottetown.ca<http://www.charlottetown.ca/>

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From: CANUFNET [mailto:canufnet-bounces at list.web.net] On Behalf Of Wood, Crispin via CANUFNET
Sent: February 17, 2021 11:16 AM
To: Canadian Urban Forest Network <canufnet at list.web.net>
Cc: Wood, Crispin <woodc at halifax.ca>
Subject: [CANUFNET] Trees and Capital Construction

Hello Folks,

A question or two for the municipalities if I may:



  1.  How does you municipality protect trees when designing (not constructing) streetscape renewal projects? i.e. Do you have policy, strategy, orders of council etc?
  2.  How does your municipality compensate for mature trees removed during capital construction (do you have a calculation of value, and is it published in policy, bylaw or strategy)?
  3.  How do you plan for new green infrastructure in the Road Right-of-way (do you have landscape design standards, streetscaping standards, policy to protect or enhance green infrastructure)?
  4.  Are your current tools working?

Any responses are appreciated

Crispin Wood, MSFM
Superintendent of Urban Forestry
Road Operations & Construction
Transportation & Public Works
(902) 225-2774

HΛLIFΛX
PO BOX 1749
HALIFAX NS B3J 3A5
halifax.ca<http://www.halifax.ca/>

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