This message was sent by email to members of the Community Association on March 30, 2018:
As some of you may know, the County began removing trees (that they deemed hazardous) from the Pine/Poplar reserve during the last few weeks. Unfortunately, it has resulted in a virtual clear cutting of this green space. Once the BBCA Executive became aware of the extent of said tree removal we immediately called for a meeting with the county representatives.
At this meeting, we determined that they deemed any tree with the potential to hit private property as hazardous. They had received several calls from BB residents concerned about “reserve” trees falling on their property in the future. That being the case, very tall healthy trees were removed, along with the blatantly dangerous ones.
For the time being, we have an Agreement from the county that they will remove only dead and leaning trees that pose an obvious threat to fall.
We will be addressing this issue, along with a related proposal for short-long term county reserve maintenance/planning (including replanting) for the community’s input at the AGM in May. We will then put forth our requests to the county.
If you have any constructive comments, questions or concerns please contact either Cory or Riley.
Thanks,
Lianne for
BBCA Exec
Thank you to the executive for addressing this issue promptly and effectively, and to Riley and Cory for meeting and communicating with County representatives on this issue.
