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Originally Posted by sketchyt
I love trees and I want as many around.
However, I have a 50+ year old Poplar that continues to grow and keeps growing. It's huge. It's on my property but the tree is considered to be the City's and I cannot remove it without their cooperation and/or a hefty fine.
The tree is causing damage to my driveway and lawn (and god knows what else). What's interesting is they removed a series of similar trees directly across the street from me on a public green space.
I went through the proper channels (twice) and the City said the tree is healthy and they cannot remove it. They said they would come back to prune it but that was a year ago. That department has since ghosted me.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can/should do next?
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What's the fine? $500? cost of doing business. $5000+ yeah, don't do it.
https://www.calgary.ca/bylaws/tree-protection.html
https://www.calgary.ca/bylaws/trees-shrubs.html
Yeah... don't remove it. It might be a fine of $500 for removal of the tree... but there could be up to $10K in fines for failure to protect the tree and other stuff.
However, it seems you can call some of those contractors in the first link to prune the city tree and probably tell them to bill the city for the cost of pruning and whatnot?