Dear Editor:
Re: WV Owners Chop Trees to Beat Bylaw, April 22 story.
Bylaw be damned! Our West Vancouver council has just adopted a bylaw protecting West Vancouver trees over 75 centimetres in diameter. This is inviting disaster of the first order. With the exception of one tulip tree in the 1700-block of Mathers Avenue and a few decadent evergreens in the Klootchman, Lighthouse and Cypress Falls parks, all large trees are second growth, mostly hemlock and red cedar.
Top heavy and shallow-rooted they are prime candidates for “blowdown” in the next windstorm.
Will our council reimburse the homeowner whose house is smashed by a 76 cm hemlock? With whose money?
James R. Thomson, West Vancouver
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