City pushes to plant more trees this year
It may be snowing already but the city tree planters are in a push to plant 22,000 more trees before the end of the year.
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y 09:54 on 2019-11-08 Permalink
The story about the old man in NDG who sat in his yard to keep the city from planting a tree (mentioned briefly in this piece) still makes my blood boil! My block in Parc-Ex has a grand total of three mature trees and maybe 6 smaller trees. If you look at the map showing areas most at risk from heatwaves, my block is the deepest red. Add to the fact that very few people have air conditioners and there are lots of elderly people, we’re in trouble if we have a sustained heatwave! A few trees would go a long way here to make it more liveable. Send those old man’s trees to us!
Meanwhile, on the other side of the wall, I saw the other day that TMR is planting even more trees.
walkerp 11:03 on 2019-11-08 Permalink
Does anybody know if there is a process to request trees to be planted in a specific spot?
Kate 11:15 on 2019-11-08 Permalink
walkerp, I don’t believe so, but nothing stops you emailing your councillors to ask. I plan to do the same about the empty sidewalk square outside my place.
Update: I did email her, and she has promised me a new tree in the spring!
walkerp 20:23 on 2019-11-08 Permalink
Oh nice! That was more effective than me waiting on hold on 311 during my lunch this afternoon and finally giving up.
CE 12:49 on 2019-11-09 Permalink
@Kate, what did you ask to get a promise so quickly? I’ll do the same thing for my street!
Kate 00:59 on 2019-11-10 Permalink
CE, I have emailed Mary Deros previously and she has always replied, so this time I simply gave her my address, described how the previous tree outside my place had been taken down, and asked for a new one for the space. And she said she’d make sure it was on the list when they put new trees in this spring.
Kevin 12:50 on 2019-11-09 Permalink
@CE
It is usually not a question of not wanting a tree, but rather being pissed off at yet another act undertaken by a bureaucracy that mistakely believes that it knows best.
E.g. Detroit https://www.citylab.com/environment/2019/01/detroit-tree-planting-programs-white-environmentalism-research/579937/
CE 16:53 on 2019-11-10 Permalink
Thanks Kate. I’m going to send her an email today and see what she says for my situation.