[CANUFNET] Trees and Capital Construction

[Bruno PAQUET]

Interesting proposal Julian, working from under trees to get them better
protected. I will work on it . 🙄

Since 2002 and not 2005, the new City of Montreal is divided into 19
boroughs, each of which is able to pass tree preservation by-laws mainly on
private land via zoning by-laws. But the situation is quite distinct from
one borough to another, as you point out.

Thus, many of us agree that much remains to be done. Such as avoiding too
great a disparity in the wording and application of by-laws from one
borough to another, sometimes even from one side of the street to the
other. And this, in the quest for greater equity among all citizens.

For tree protection measures, some boroughs have been particularly
innovative in adopting a management plan for the local urban forest. The
Central City undertook to revise an existing tree protection specification
during the work, but the project was not completed.

In Outremont, the smallest borough with 24 000 citizens, we are in the
process of revising the zoning by-law to improve the preservation of
existing trees, both public and private, when work of any kind must take
place in their immediate environment.

The area of the new MIL campus of the Université de Montréal has been
planned and built to offer a better future for trees: continuous tree pits,
biodiversity, choice of large species, suspended sidewalks, etc.

Now, we are trying to get involved in projects when the sheet is still
white, so we can put ahead trees necessities and long-term growing needs.
As I said, we are trying...


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Le mer. 17 févr. 2021, à 14 h 00, Julian Dunster via CANUFNET <
canufnet at list.web.net> a écrit :

> Well now, I know that some Montrealers like to be part of an underground
> movement, but maybe in boroughs not burrows.
>
> It is quite an image - les urban forestieres scurrying around underground
> in burrows, popping up here and there to manage the trees :)
>
>
> In all urban areas the problem is exacerbated because urban planners and
> engineers leave no room for trees. So, until there is a more viable land
> base where we can grow trees, this will always be an issue. Change the
> urban design paradigm to allow for more land set aside for trees!
>
> On Behalf of Dunster and Associates Environmental Consultants Ltd.
>
>
> Dr. Julian A Dunster R.P.F., R.P.P.., M.C.I.P., ISA Certified Arborist,
> ASCA Registered Consulting Arborist # 378,
> ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualified
> Honourary Life Member ISA + PNWISA
>
> North American distributor for Rinntech www.dunster.cawww.treelaw.infowww.rinntech.info
>
> On Wed/2/17/2021 9:33 AM, Ethier Elaine via CANUFNET wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> In Montreal, when burrows were legal municipal entities, all had bylaws
> depending on the amounts of parks, their use and value of the residential
> realty. Westmount, Outremont, Town of Mont Royal, the Golden Mile and some
> Garden cities were ahead in applying innovative methods of green protection
> and city scapes.
>
> As cities went into a major fusion to become almost an entire city island,
> many new protection initiatives have been put in place with the fusion,
> 2005 was the year marking urban forestry Best practices with new bylaws.
> The Mount Royal heritage has its own protection plan as it is a emblematic
> parc. But for other burrows, there is a fifteen year gap in restoring,
> updating  or renewing street tree project. In highly densely populated
> burrows, no new plans, street trees are replaced in the same manner as
> planted 40/50 years ago, the same small rectangular pitch.
>
> In residential areas, Street corners are treated with new approaches but
> not as many tall trees have space. The approach is for citizen gardening
> take over.
> Large tree removal is rarely appreciated for it’s wood mass value unless
> it’s a remarkable speeches. Parc Jean Drapeau on a historical island had
> massive cuttings of mature trees without consultation. There is a lot of
> this happening with the greater montreal TOD plan and the REM. All natural
> benefits are replaced by economic rendering for the cost of these
> infrastructure.
>
> The urban canopy will not have the same biomass, populations of our Nordic
> zone will have less tree canopy per inhabitants than in the past. Announces
> of planting trees are welcome but the size of the selected mature height
> and spread are tailored down because of vertical building density. The
> human scope for major construction are trees just tall enough for two
> stories.
> Montréal has planted massively in parc all over, the Emerald Ash Borers
> are devastating street scapes.
>
> Many boroughs (Park Extension/Hochelaga Maisonneuve/Rosemont/Montreal
> North to name a few) have limited their bylaw to propose, when issuing
> permit for tree removal, to plant a high dimension indigenous tree if and
> when possible. So Yellow Birch is coming back to town as alley or street
> trees because they are tall trees.
>
>
>
>
>
> Elaine Ethier
> Plani Gester
> Aménagement, foresterie urbaine
>
> Le 17 févr. 2021 à 10:19, Wood, Crispin via CANUFNET
> <canufnet at list.web.net> <canufnet at list.web.net> a écrit :
>
> 
>
> 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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