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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere
https://twitter.com/CameronKroetsch/...370511872?s=20
Kroetsch going off about some odd bureaucracy on tree removals and how he thinks Developers need to give public notice for routine construction works like vegetation removal which should be approved by the municipality (??) so that we can save trees for an extra "60 days".
I'm sorry, what? how is this a priority? Who cares? If the trees are coming down for a development, why does the developer have to provide extensive notice for his work? Kroetsch frames it as allowing them to be kept for another 30-60 days (woohoo I guess), but Lamb would have just provided notice for the same removal date I imagine.. great job, introducing another hoop a developer has to jump through for no result.
Once the city signs off on the tree protection plan, who cares when they come down.. SPA processes are undelegated from council for a reason -details like this and requiring private property owners to play politics with the local councillor on small stuff on private property is just ridiculous.
I think Kroetsch is great at being far more responsive and open than Farr and is genuinely trying to improve this city, and I have to commend him on that.. but he's barking up the wrong tree here, literally.
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Could be a case where he's just representing the people of his ward. It's a pretty affluent area, and trees are one of the things those types like to latch onto when they have a problem with development. Kroetch probably should've vetted that first, but he always finds a way to get a word in.