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Brookswood and Fernridge
Clear-cut bylaw gets swift passage
After a heated debate, Township council passed a bylaw to prevent clear-cutting in Brookswood and Fernridge. by Bob Groeneveld
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Langley Township has a tree bylaw – although one that is restricted to the Brookswood and Fernridge areas. Council passed its Interim Tree-ClearCutting Bylaw at a special meeting held on Tuesday evening, April 29, after a previously defeated bylaw was brought back to the table by Councillor Bob Long on Monday. The bylaw, with a few softening amendments by Long, including limiting its scope to “the lesser of… 8 trees, or… 20 per cent of the trees [on a parcel]” got three readings on Monday evening, and then was pushed through a fourth reading on Tuesday night. The bylaw outlining parameters, including numbers of trees affected, as well as considerations of tree health and property owners’ building needs, that limit and/or allow cutting trees in Brookswood and Fernridge under specific conditions, was not passed without some harsh words passed between councillors. Coun. Grant Ward started off with accusations that the bylaw would “pit neighbour against neighbour.” He tried to stall the bylaw with a referral motion, seeking information from Township staff that those in favour of the bylaw gener-
ally found excessive. tion that went into the effort. He charged that “only a few are driving this He noted that he is not against tree protec[bylaw] because they saw only a few cleartion, but was especially concerned that the cuts,” and sought to gather numbers of clearbylaw “will come into effect immediately cut parcels, acreages involved, the numbers after fourth reading, and we have nobody to of trees of each variety that had been cut, enforce it, no structure for reporting, fines, reasons for the cuts on each property, whethand the like.” er cuts were in preparation for the subseAmong the bylaw’s proponents were those quently failed Brookswood/Fernridge Official who admitted to the haste, but noted that that Community Plan, whether is why it is an “interneighbours had been notiim” bylaw, and work fied prior to cutting and could no go ahead on “I won’t say if they felt it was within a more refined version something I might which would supertheir property rights, how much clear-cutting had regret, too… I don’t sede the current verbeen to create fire breaks, sion immediately upon see winners and and if log harvesting is a acceptance by council. legitimate activity in some Froese noted that it losers; the trees parts of the area. is a “complex bylaw” are winners.” Coun. Kim Richter disthat will take time to Councillor Bob Long missed his request as an implement, and while attempt to “obfuscate” he voted against it, he and delay passage of the vowed to stand behind bylaw, rather than as an real attempt at better the decision of the majority of council, addunderstanding the bylaw before voting. ing that “bylaws are not written in stone” Coun. Charlie Fox, who had seconded and a normal process offers opportunities for Ward’s motion only so that it could be disamendments as fine-tuning is required. cussed, noted that it would be costly in staff “I don’t like what I’ve heard,” Long said resources to fulfill Ward’s request, but added in reference to the combative discussion that that that cost “would pale” beside the cost of had arisen around the council table, “but I implementing the bylaw. won’t say something I might regret, too.” The referral motion failed, with only Ward Long, who championed his amended verand Mayor Jack Froese voting in favour. sion of the bylaw that had failed only two Although Fox voted against the referral, he weeks earlier, stressed the “interim” nature of also later voted against the bylaw, expressing the document, and added, “I don’t see winconcern over the speed and lack of preparaners and losers; the trees are winners.”