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[pikabu]

Council nixes pruning old Garry oaks for house move
Erin Cardone, Oak Bay News
May 14, 2011



Driving away from Oak Bay municipal hall Monday evening, Jim Connelly felt his gut sink.


“I had let it down,” he said of an old house on Hampshire Road. “That’s just the way it is – you can’t win them all.”


Connelly, of Nickel Bros. house movers, was in council chambers asking for approval to have six trees pruned that overhang Newport Avenue.


The trimming would have given the company room to transport a 1912 house at 1395 Hampshire Rd. along Oak Bay Avenue and Newport to the waterfront. After being loaded onto a barge, it would be shipped up to the Saanich Peninsula and moved to Nickel Bros.’ storage facility.


The request was denied in a 5-1 vote [...]


http://www.bclocalne.../121741384.html

[yodsaker]

OB can be so asinine.

[sebberry]

At first I thought the trees were on the property and uttered a few choice words about OB council, but they're not. They're city trees. Also, the house moving would require the total removal of another tree from the middle of the road.

Aren't Garry Oak trees a protected specis as well?

I hate to say it, but I think council probably made the right call on this one.

[aastra]

The casual attitude in Victoria re: chopping down Garry Oaks has always bugged the heck out of me so I actually have no problem with this.

Nice street, decent old house... why not fix the place up?

[yodsaker]

I should read more closely. I thought it was about pruning trees on the house lot.
I would have no problem with that but pruning trees along the route maybe a bit much, was there no other route?

[VicHockeyFan]

I am no tree fan, but I think the neighbors have a right to expect a city tree near them no to be cut back that much. Maybe they can find a way to make it work with the house being cut in half.

[Baro]

THey should just wait a couple months, the main hobby of gary oaks is getting sick and falling down.

[Mike K.]

^what do you mean?

[Baro]

I've never met a more fragile and picky species of tree before. Gary oaks seem to get sick and die or fall apart quite easily. They're the sickly emo kids of the tree world.

[jklymak]

^ That possibly explains why people are at pains to protect them.

[Holden West]

Once again I must remind you, Garry Oak is a tree; Gary Oak is a Pokemon character.

[G-Man]

Sounds like an appropriate decision to me. There must be another way to do it.