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Winnipeg Advocates Press Candidates for Private-Tree Bylaw
Trees Winnipeg says a bylaw is needed because more than 80% of the city’s trees are on private land, and about 75% of candidates have signed a pledge.
- Trees Please Winnipeg is pressuring municipal candidates to sign a pledge enacting a bylaw controlling the removal of trees more than 15 centimetres in diameter, as more than 80 per cent of city trees sit on private property.
- Winnipeg currently lacks jurisdiction over trees on private property, leaving owners free to remove them; the owner of Lemay Forest was legally permitted to cut down roughly 17,000 trees before the province intervened last year.
- Author Erna Buffie notes residents must pull permits for home renovations but can remove 100-year-old trees without repercussions, stating, "There's always the personal rights versus communal rights."
- Roughly 75 per cent of candidates signed the pledge, though incumbent mayor Scott Gillingham has not, stating, "We have to take a look at what it is and what the nuances are."
- Other Canadian cities already regulate private tree removal; Surrey passed protections in 2006, followed by Ottawa, Vancouver, and Toronto, while Edmonton has a similar bylaw in the works.
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