Developer draws fire for cutting down 100-year-old trees

Poultryprincess · Post by **Poultryprincess** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 12:46 am

NOOOO you are right TomK, all I meant was @ $100,000.oo per tree it will scare people off from copying him.
There was 30 or so trees, his profit will be down the tubes ~ looks good on him!
If they let him get away with it, alot of folks will jump on the band wagon & do the same.
It's a damn shame that "some one" in the office didn't race down there to investigate.

Post by **Killerbunny** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 6:25 am

Thanks for sharing your insight PP!

clawton · Post by **clawton** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:07 am

fine him and make him spend the fine on replanting trees in those same spots that were "in his way" and then plant many many more untill the fine is paid up!!

TomK · Post by **TomK** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:48 am

Clawton...great idea..trouble is, it wont happen...the reason urban sprawl has continued even after we've all cone to realize what a nightmare it actually is, is because city hall doesn't call the shots...the developers do...follow the money

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:56 am

Here we've got farmers and developers cutting down entire forests to get that extra row of corn in or the latest subdivision- fields, forests, hedgerows all gone, rivers put in pipelines and buried underground. Nobody bats an eye. No thought spared for wildlife.

nekoatsume · Post by **nekoatsume** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 9:41 am

I don't see anything in the article about a penalty for failing to get the permit. Will they even get a fine?? I hope so.

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 12:26 pm

Likely the developer will get a slap on the wrist, a tiny piffling fine much less than probably the cost of the permit. Those large hundred thousand dollar fines are for small homeowner types. There's no way they would risk offending the developer, he might get angry and "develop" Markham instead, taking all his big bucks with him.
Check out this obscenity near Port Perry. The council sold out the people of Greenbank to make money off this tiny aircraft- size airport's owner by allowing him to dump truckload after truckload of fill and getting kickbacks in $$ for each truckload.
Before picture: Looks pretty level to me. You need fill? for what?

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After picture: Oh wait! What we meant was, we can pile the fill so high, that the airplanes don't actually need to land:

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Side view:

But then there's Karma. They found toxic soil, the council made them stop dumping dirt, now the airport owner is suing. At least the neigbours don't have to put up with endless dust and noise for now.
The losers? People who live in Greenbank, the taxpayers who will ultimately of course foot the bill, and always, always last, the environment. All for greed, the government needs money, money, ever more money with no end in sight.

TomK · Post by **TomK** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 2:23 pm

Robbie...lol..stop...you're going to get my 'rant' engine all fired up

kenya · Post by **kenya** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 3:17 pm

Well most trees around here don't live forever, they might have been here for confederation but they are probably at the end of their lifespan. I have a few trees here that are very old, beautiful but I know they have rotten cores and have to go. I hate to do it because I love the sheer size of them, but every big wind I fear they will topple.
Where I lived as a kid, we had a huge maple in the front yard the city came along and marked it to take it down, the owners were fighting it but came home one day and it was gone. They were furious, as was I, I hoped they could stop the city from taking it down. The way the city did it was dirty in my opinion but it did reveal the rot in the centre of the tree. Who can argue with that.
I've also seen developers come along not wait to see what trees they have and cut them all down to speed construction only to replant trees that were not as nice, I too thought they shouldn't be allowed to do that. Trees that they could have gone around but no just cut everything down. I'm disgusted the city let's them do it, beautiful big healthy trees gone just like that.

redninja · Post by **redninja** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:15 pm

We are lucky to have some very old oaks here. The oldest is around 250. There are some probably 175 and bunches of 150.
We love them and they love us back by staying healthy and strong and providing hundreds of healthy offspring and providing shade and stability to the soil.
I hope there are lots of people out there that value their trees for something other than money.
We're lucky to have them here.
Some pictures