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| Vancouver to charge residents for a $750 security deposit to chop down trees on their own property | Vancouver to charge residents for a $750 security deposit to chop down trees on their own property |
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| A Canadian city has said any of its residents wanting to cut down a tree on their property must pay security deposit of up to $750 - which will only be returned if they plant a new one. | A Canadian city has said any of its residents wanting to cut down a tree on their property must pay security deposit of up to $750 - which will only be returned if they plant a new one. |
| Vancouver City Council has proposed an amendment to its planning laws which will mean residents will be forced to pay deposits of $500 for removing a tree less than eight centimetres in diameter and $750 for a tree wider than eight centimetres. | Vancouver City Council has proposed an amendment to its planning laws which will mean residents will be forced to pay deposits of $500 for removing a tree less than eight centimetres in diameter and $750 for a tree wider than eight centimetres. |
| The Parks and Recreation department has proposed the scheme after it estimated the city’s "tree canopy" has declined from 22.5 per cent in 1995 to 18 per cent in 2013 - mostly from the removal of trees on private property. | The Parks and Recreation department has proposed the scheme after it estimated the city’s "tree canopy" has declined from 22.5 per cent in 1995 to 18 per cent in 2013 - mostly from the removal of trees on private property. |
| Current planning law requires residents to plant another tree somewhere else on a "one-for-one replacement" rule but the council found people were not planting it in the wrong location, planting a poor quality treee that would not survive or not planting it at all. | Current planning law requires residents to plant another tree somewhere else on a "one-for-one replacement" rule but the council found people were not planting it in the wrong location, planting a poor quality treee that would not survive or not planting it at all. |
| Local councillor Andrea Reimer insisted the council were not benefiting financially from the scheme as the money is paid back or used to plant trees elsewhere. | Local councillor Andrea Reimer insisted the council were not benefiting financially from the scheme as the money is paid back or used to plant trees elsewhere. |
| She told CBC News: "We were finding that people, even though there might be a requirement in their building permit to retain trees, we were finding that either they weren't, or that they were replanting them but the trees weren't living. | She told CBC News: "We were finding that people, even though there might be a requirement in their building permit to retain trees, we were finding that either they weren't, or that they were replanting them but the trees weren't living. |
| "Security deposits is an approach that's been used [elsewhere] and it seems like it would make a lot of sense here as well." | "Security deposits is an approach that's been used [elsewhere] and it seems like it would make a lot of sense here as well." |
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