To the Editor:
Re: "Kerrisdale's changing landscape," Nov. 7.
Thanks for including Terri Clark in your new look. There are a few of us still standing who fought long and hard to protect and enhance Vancouver's unique urban green tree environment. There is now help from an active society of professional landscape architects in the BCSLA - young women and men who are committed to protecting, augmenting and enhancing Vancouver's one-of-a-kind urban tree environment.
A few years back, city council finally passed the Tree Protection and Preservation Bylaw. Its passing provided mandatory protection for street and boulevard trees during construction with the preservation of existing trees, on private properties. The bylaw mandated that the landscape plan for the new residence must include the replacement of trees within the new building's footprint, to include trees of two-inch stem caliper or greater equal to the trunk diameter of the tree removed.
The bylaw has a fatal flaw allowing under a permit the removal of one large tree annually on private property. This needs to be rescinded. The few of us who are left standing gladly pass this task on to Terri.
Clive Justice, retired landscape architect - Vancouver
