[CANUFNET] Street tree design standards and maintenance periods

[Jennifer Miles]

Hello Urban Foresters - long time listener, first time caller.

I'm updating a Subdivision and Servicing Bylaw which regulates our boulevards and am looking for street tree bylaw BMPs for:

  *   Soil cell triggers - bylaw wording that identifies when a soil cell must be installed.

  *   Maintenance Periods - we currently hold a Performance Security for 1 year (but longer to rectify deficiencies) but want to go to a base period of 2 years. Does anyone else hold Securities/Bonds for more than a year (to ensure establishment irrigation for 2-3 years)?

  *   Design standard for the use of crusher fines as mulch (investigating for use instead of grates and in some traffic circles).
  *   Standard requirements for the use of utility root barrier "tunnels" like this:
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Thank you kindly,

Jen Miles, MEDes   (she/her)

Planner Specialist - Climate Action & Environmental Stewardship | City of Kelowna

250-862-0438 | jamiles at kelowna.ca<mailto:jamiles at kelowna.ca>



Kelowna is located on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the syilx/Okanagan people.


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