Protection of Trees on Private Property

We have to protect trees! For example area along Yonge street in Newmarket. 

It’s, all most, don’t have green zone, only buildings and plazas. 

More cars, less fresh air around.

Let’s make like this, cut tree, grow new one! 

Don’t cut without permit!

The future is being sacrificed in the interests of developers who currently buy lots in mature areas, tear down existing affordable houses and clear cut to make it easier to build their large houses and keep their businesses going. It is ironic that the federal government is undertaking to finish planting the 50 million trees pledged by the former provincial government, in order to do something about climate change, but the Town allows the removal of trees. All you have to do is pay some money and you have permission to remove trees in a Designated Woodlot. The health benefits... Continue reading

Protection for trees in Newmarket that exist already is great!

That said I see the town of Newmarket planting trees that will never exceed 3-5m in hight. Yes this is appropriate in certain areas. That said we need to focus on planting trees that will achieve an treed canopy that will be 20m in hight. These are the pieces that will consume up to 10gal of weather a day, lower summer temperatures by 2-3 C.

New developments need to have a by-law that forces the planting of NATIVE TREE spices in a minimum of 50% of the yards.

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No, this by-law is not right. Private property is private property.

I love and have planted thousands of trees. I am the 5th generation of my family to live in the town and I grew up in the old part of town. The trees are wonderful and most people do not cut them down; instead, they work hard to maintain them. I do not see a problem that requires the removal of private property rights.  

 This is still a free country and your property is yours. If someone wants to decrease their own property value by cutting down their... Continue reading

When I was a child, I loved to gather the keys from the maple trees on our property.  I would throw the keys up in the air and watch them turn into mini helicopters as they fell to the ground!  I treasure these memories.

I am a resident of Newmarket.  I am very worried about some of my fellow residents cutting down mature trees on their properties.  We need to preserve as many trees as possible.  Mature trees offer many benefits to us, including helping to sequester carbon from the atmosphere, thus helping to mitigate the effects of climate change.

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Trees play such an important role in the environment, providing shade in the summer, shelter for small animals and a vital home for birds.  In this time of climate change emergency, trees are one of the most important ways to draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, as well as helping to provide flood control and mitigate soil erosion.

We are fortunate in Newmarket to have many mature trees, and I do believe they must be protected from indiscriminate cutting.  On private property, there may be a valid reason to remove a tree that is encroaching on utility lines, or... Continue reading

Old Newmarket is a very desirable place to live primarily because of its beautiful mature trees and expansive tree canopy; yet I continue to be dismayed when new home buyers and developers are so quick to remove the very thing — trees — that make this area so desirable and special.  Ideally, I would like to see ‘old Newmarket’ designated as a heritage conservation district where its healthy, old-growth trees are fully protected on both private and public properties.

The two grand old oak trees on my property in the Park Ave - Beechwood area are what sold me on buying... Continue reading

We attended the Climate Change workshop put on by York Region this week and were pleased that Climate Change is on the minds of town council. However, the focus was on how to deal with Climate Change and not on how we can do our part to slow it down or even better, stop it.

Many of us residents of Newmarket/Aurora and also East Gwillimbury, expressed alarm at the number of old-growth and mature trees that are being razed by developers in a clear-cut fashion when doing new construction/developments.

This has got to stop! Trees are needed to ensure land... Continue reading

Several years ago a neighbour asked for permission to cut the branches from our backyard tree that has branches into his yard.  We agreed that he could trim the branches on his property.  When we returned home from work we found that he had come onto our property (without consent) and had chopped off the branches at the trunk of the tree.  We called the Town and we told that we could involve the Police and that the Town had no Bylaw about trees.  We have many lovely older trees in Newmarket and we need to protect them.  

The trees in our yard are home to squirrels.  The rocks in the garden have chipmunks under them.  The rabbit shelters behind the large bushes and the fox comes through hunting all of the above.  Without the trees we have a sterile environment and little future to pass on to our children and grandchildren.