The City of North Vancouver has introduced a new bylaw to help strengthen urban forest and increase tree canopy cover.
The Bylaw will regulate management of trees on private property in multi-family residential, commercial, civic, industrial, and mixed employment areas in the City. The City’s Tree Bylaw was adopted by Council in March 2022.
Key points in the bylaw include:
Trees at or greater than 20 cm diameter at breast height and replacement trees will require a permit for removal, even without active development taking place.
The new bylaw offers more clarity on enforcement, ticketing, and fees for service.
It has measures to mitigate ecological losses by requiring tree replacement and other environmental enhancements, including a requirement that at least one replacement tree be a conifer.
It will enable better collection of data on private property trees within the City, including information on trees replaced, protected, and removed for better decision-making.
Learn more about the new Tree Bylaw, tree management and protection, and tree removal conditions at cnv.org/Trees.
More enviro police bs.
Cedars and hemlock are found in great numbers throughout the North Shore. I’ve kept my 14 cedars as long as possible because I like them. Now the roots are invading the driveway, the drain tile and the foundation of the house. Not that these holy workers care. Pay Pay Pay because you are an evil human.
Or in your case, a stupid human.
20 cm trunk diameter at breast height is ridiculous. That’s a small tree. I wonder what the permit fee will be for removal? It’s just a tax grab and nothing more. If I lived in the City of NV (I’m in the DNV where a protected tree is 75cm in diameter), I’d cut down any tree on my property before it becomes “protected” and falls under the Bylaw. The lesson is … beware of unintended consequences.
It’s already in force, so too late. Personally, I will be reporting any breaches I observe.
I agree. Too many people removing the tree canopy because the tree is now, inconvenient.
Well, by the time someone prunes back a tree to the ground level, its too late. Because of bylaws like this, I will come and remove trees for free, quietly.
And I will report you if I see you.
If we want to go with solar panels then we need to control trees so they don’t shade those roofs. Already seeing moves to have all new single homes “solar” ready. Seems one hand is not aware what the other is doing.
Re: CNV Tree Bylaw; A diameter of 20 cm. (8 inches), at breast height is simply too small, too much governing control over what property owners can and cannot do. Locally there is no shortage of trees, or tree canopy so great that steps, actually oversteps such as this need to be undertaken.
Now if the City really wanted to be green, do something for the environment, then it might want to rethink densification with it’s total destruction of the natural lay of the land, rain water run-off, on-site garden and green space, livability.
As for trees in the City, best not let that laurel hedge get too big or it might have more say than the poor sap who planted it!
it’s a mindless dictatorship at the helm
Yeah – these terrifying jackbooted thugs. It’s worse than living in Syria.
Well done nanny state….no trees …no airbnb….no parking anywhere….. congratulations
in a democracy you lose your freedom inch by inch. The neo-Marxists at the helm
So sick and tired of government of all levels telling me what i can and cant do with my property… Property that i paid for, and pay outragous taxes on. Its like some sick joke on tax paying citizens.
The DNV has similar bylaws and yet they can’t care for the trees on their own district land.
If you have an issue with a dangerous tree, you are placed in a long cue. Over 300 people.
Two of my neighbours hired their own arborists to remove dead and dangerous large branches from trees on District land.
They were required to pay a $50.00 fee and collect signed permission from the homes around them.
Thankfully these people are keeping us safe.