Motion
BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Climate Change and Environment Committee recommend that Council direct staff from the City’s Public Works and Strategic Initiatives Departments work with staff from the Planning, Development and Building Services Department, within existing resources, to complete a geotechnical review or analyses in order to determine the extent to which sensitive marine clay is present in the area of concern; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Climate Change and Environment Committee recommend that Council direct the General Manager of Public Works remove, at the City’s expense, any tree on municipal property in the area of concern, where sensitive marine clay is the predominant soil type, and that the tree is determined through City review to be a significant contributing factor to serious damage to private property, without requiring a new or additional geotechnical report at the owner’s expense, consistent with a neighbourhood-wide approach applied in the Greenboro precedent; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the Climate Change and Environment Committee recommend that Council approve the delegation of authority to the General Manager of Public Works to approve applications for tree permits under the Tree Protection By-law, 2020-340 for privately owned distinctive trees in the affected parts of the area of concern, as determined by City analysis, where the tree is causing or is likely to cause significant structural damage, as described in Section 66 (2) of the tree by-law, due to the presence of sensitive marine clay soils.