Are we serious about our environment?

It is a well known fact that trees help our environment and quality of life.. Trees also provides the unique characteristic of a mature neighbourhood in Newmarket.

I hear arguments from some property owners that they have the absolute right to cut down trees and restricting this right infringes on their property rights. If this is true then we should eliminate a majority of laws we have now because they infringe on personal rights over communal rights. I don't think that is how we want to live in Newmarket.

It is about time that Newmarket implements a law to protect trees on private property for the good of the community not individuals or developers who want to impose their individual rights..

Right now any developer has the ability to buy property in a mature neighbourhood and destroy that unique characteristic of a mature neighbourhood by cutting down trees to intensify that neighbourhood by building larger homes or subdivide the property.