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[City Folk]

Not really sure if this is the right location for this thread, please feel free to move it if not.

Share your vision for Victoria's Urban Forest
Victoria’s urban forest includes all of the trees, shrubs, groundcover and the soils in which they grow, in parks, natural areas, boulevards, and residential gardens. The City of Victoria manages over 40,000 trees in its parks and boulevards. Many of these trees are nearing the end of their expected life cycle.

The City is developing an Urban Forest Master Plan to ensure the urban forest is healthy, safe and abundant in the future.

The public and media are invited to learn more about Victoria’s urban forest and share their vision for its future at two workshops offered this week at City Hall. Registration is not required.

What: WORKSHOP: What’s Your Vision for Victoria’s Urban Forest?
When: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. (presentation at 7 p.m.) or Saturday, January 24, 2009, from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. (presentation at 11 a.m.)
Where: Victoria City Hall, Council Chambers

The workshops will include presentations on:
· Victoria’s Urban Forest – Dan Marzocco, Supervisor of Arboriculture at the City of Victoria, will present the opportunities and challenges facing Victoria’s urban forest.
· Developing an Urban Forest Master Plan – Jeremy Gye, an arbourist and urban forester, will explain the purpose and benefits of an Urban Forest Master Plan, the types of issues it will address, and how it will be used. This City has contracted Gye and Associates Urban Forestry Consultants to develop an Urban Forest Master Plan for Victoria.
· Ryan Street Greenway Project – Victoria resident, Ludo Bertsch, will talk about how he and his neighbours are working with the municipality to help restore the Garry oak ecosystem on Ryan Street. (Tuesday workshop only)
· Maddison Lane Greenway – Victoria resident, Sylvia von Schuckmann, will explain what her neighbourhood has done to protect and restore a patch of Garry oak habitat on their street, and how they are working with the City of Victoria to develop a management plan for the area. (Saturday workshop only)

Public input from the workshops and an online survey will help inform the development of a draft Plan, which will be presented to the community at an open house in the spring for feedback.

For more information, visit: www.victoria.ca/urbanforest

[Mike K.]

The City of Victoria's promise to plan 5,000 trees in 2020 has thus far garnered 51 entries onto the tree planting tracker. The number will grow quickly now that spring is here, and I'm sure plenty of trees are also best planted in the late summer/fall months.

 

http://vicmap.maps.a...fecebe3a460bbe7

[mbjj]

So far I've seen three of the city's "new and improved" flower beds, totally drab, brown and ugly. One is at Memorial Crescent and Fairfield, one on Cook near the Cook St. playground, and one in Bastion Square. Surely they could have planted a few daffodil bulbs to brighten things up. They survive pretty well on their own. I am certainly not a big fan of Oregon Grape.

[Nparker]

 

Surely they could have planted a few daffodil bulbs to brighten things up

But these are exactly the types of plants/flowers the CoV wants to remove. 

[Victoria Watcher]

Comment: After spending $90,000 where are the trees?

 

Saanich council bureaucratized its tree protection bylaw and turned it into a useless nightmare that fails the people of Saanich

https://www.timescol...-trees-11628836

[aastra]

 

That’s my point: There are no trees, despite the tree protection bylaw.

There is only a $90,000 waste added to the cost of the house.

With the bylaw’s restrictive tree-planting requirements, no trees could be planted on the bare land that remained.

I tried to plant the required replacement trees on a ­neighbour’s property, then on a farm in Saanich or in the park next door, but the answer from Parks was “no”!

I had the opportunity to hear the author of the original tree protection bylaw at a public hearing.

He was as ­surprised and appalled as I was at how bureaucracy can destroy a ­well-intended bylaw.

 

Like I say, check through the "Vanishing Trees" thread on this board. Note how the same "well-intended" bylaws and programs have been causing ironic consequences all over the world for many years.

 

Modern times = no end of well-intended laws, bylaws, and programs that produce the exact opposite consequence of what they were purportedly intended to produce (but a good citizen should always resist the temptation to consider the possibility that maybe the intention was never actually all that good to begin with)

[Mike K.]

It’s people without kids, telling parents how to parent.

It’s like that with transportation planning, business and economic advocacy, tree bylaws, and so on.

[aastra]

Hey, I don't run a discussion forum but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be heeding every bit of my advice as if it were gospel. A degree of detachment can be very helpful in many situations.