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Originally Posted by Nancy
The current bylaw prohibits burning leaves, garbage, and yard waste, but I think it should be expanded to prohibit "the burning of green or damp wood and any other material which produces excessive smoke." I would define excessive smoke as "including any smoke that visibly drifts into adjacent properties."
We have a fire pit but use it only only 2-3 times a year, and even then we only burn wax logs and dry (retail packaged) wood. We have a neighour, however, I don't know what he burns, but it feels like there is a forest fire in our neighbourhood when he uses his pit.
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I would strongly oppose your ammendment to the bylaw. I think that excessive smoke defintion could be used by "crazy" neighbours to ruin a lot of peoples reasonable fires. For example everytime you put out a fire it would violate the bylaw as "visible smoke" would go over the fence. Even with good would there are times when a larger log is burning that it will produce enough smoke to violate your proposed bylaw. I understand the spirit of what you are saying and agree with it and try to build my fires to that standard as no one sitting around a fire likes a smokey fire either but I think the potential for abuse is too high.