[CANUFNET] Trees and Capital Construction

Fri Feb 19 12:59:44 EST 2021

Bruno, the Montreal Tree bylaw was 2005.

Please excuse my French for the Burroughs- burrows, it would in fact be a case of total biomass !!!

Outremont is a case appart, Old Quary on the North face of the mountain. Beautiful views to and from the Ottawa river and Lakes as well as the Saint Lawrence. I lived 32 years on the wild side of the Mount-Royal. Lived and worked on Campus as it is said. Created and presided le Comité d’embellissement of Outremont. The first greening Committee. Worked with Georges Boizard on arboriculture projects to increase and maintain the Outremont urban forest. Outremont received its first Silver Iris Provincial prize for new landscape approches including trees and shrubs planted on avenues, some busy dense residential-school and commercial strips. Citizens were very proud and TREE DEMOCRACY became a BUZZ GREEN word. Burroughs like Montreal-East disregarded tress as they were staining the petroleum industrial zones and structures.

Nevertheless, no matter the Burroughs, Tools are missing, some of them, very useful, disappeared. One listed magnificent remarkable trees in the Province. This great tool was abandoned late 1990’s.

Since 1998, year of devastating Ice Storm, severely damaged trees are still standing and managed. Severe Structural  damages lead to diseases and … . It's around  that time, if not perfect in memory that The SIAQ International Society of Arboriculture, Quebec chapter,  stopped the edition of a great tool : Le repertoires des arbres Remaquables du Quebec. Heritage trees and all viable stem were well documented with a grid for health and economic analysis as well as public health monitoring, what we all call Canopy value. I used it as a management tool.

Since then, a Lady from Quebec City has had contracts with Hydro to photograph and document great trees so to have a registry of species to be protected from questionable techniques by some power line Treeman. This tool is not made public.
A few beautiful books have been edited but not promoted for the industry nor enough to bring a sense of recognition of our urban forest incentives at large.

The International Society of Arboriculture Quebec is the respected organisation that should lead the way with a new tool for private or public tree assesment on city draw back limits, parks, riverbanks, etc., With today’s technology, so many tools not used enough. It is maybe time for a cross provincial knowledge transfer of urban forestry best bylaws, best practice, best distribution, best practitioners, best user friendly management, etc.

Montreal is a good model for concertation, innovation; it is old, modern and contemporary, and young with thousands of students of all fields in the best schools, colleges and four Universities.
UNESCO City of Design, complex, built and rebuilt, housing the UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape at University of Montreal, surrounded by rivers, more than 32km of underground life and transport accessibility, unchangeable urban pattern other than industrial sectors or upright density. A city’s vitality is seen as healthy when counting the amount of cranes are in one area. Would'nt be nice to have cranes drop in large species and creat urban forest with big brothers instead od mostly juvenile trees.
On comment about Urbanism ;
Urban planners are organized, they are formed to plan cities, with all it means, the have taken their place over and above a numbers of urban professions.

ELAINE
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Le 19 févr. 2021 à 10:33, Bruno PAQUET via CANUFNET <canufnet at list.web.net<mailto:canufnet at list.web.net>> a écrit :

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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Arrondissement d'Outremont
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Le mer. 17 févr. 2021, à 14 h 00, Julian Dunster via CANUFNET <canufnet at list.web.net<mailto: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!

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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><mailto: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
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