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There's the presentation portion, so that we can have that on the website for others to view. After tonight he might see a little recording. But Popup!

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Okay. Well, it's a few minutes pass. It's about 6 32, 6, 33.

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And so I would like to formally welcome you, and thank you for being with us on behalf of the city of Guelph.

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I want to say, thank you for joining us for tonight's community information session and for those that I haven't met my name's Amanda Kennedy, and I'm an independent, certified professional facilitator.

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I'm a member of the consulting team that is here to support the city.

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And so my role tonight you can probably see on the screen is going to be as a moderator so it's my role to keep us on time and on track.

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And I want to thank you for joining us to learn more about the current private free Protection bylaw, and how you can share your ideas.

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I'm so happy that you're with us, and you're gonna notice that there are a number of other faces on the screen and working behind the scenes.

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And so tonight we will be hearing from all of the folks that are on the screen.

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And maybe it would be nice if we could just go around.

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Then everyone could say, Hi to me, do you wanna say, Hi!

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Hi, everyone! My name is Tania Filer, and I'm a forester with the city, and I'm the lead for this project.

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So I just want to say, welcome to all of you.

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Margot, you want to say, Hi!

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Good evening, everyone, my name's Margot. I'm the lead consultant for this project, and you'll be hearing me speak quite a bit.

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But in the meantime Amanda and I are competing to see who can sound less congested.

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That's the challenge for this evening.

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Okay? Bye.

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Hi! Everyone! My name is Leah Leffler. I'm an environmental planner, working for the city of Guelph, and a designated tree Bylaw, Inspector.

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So my role is a supporting one and supporting Tamia as the project manager and the consulting team.

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Thanks for joining us tonight.

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Thanks everyone. And I also want to acknowledge that these types of events don't happen without a lot of behind the scenes. Work.

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So I especially want to thank Molly for being there behind the scenes and Tracy from the city, I know, was a huge support as well in terms of preparing for today.

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So off the top I mentioned a few logistics at least, that we were recording.

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So I just wanted to note that again. If anybody's just joining that, we are recording tonight, session and a link will be available on the city's website later in the so if you want to share that with anyone, by all means, we're going to be taking notes the recording will stop after the formal

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presentation, and then we're going to have some questions and answers.

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And so we'll be taking notes during that time. But I want you to know that your name won't be necessary.

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Won't be associated with those comments. So we call them a non attributed note, and those notes are going to form part of what we heard and we're going to talk about how we're listening to the community.

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And that will form part of a report. At the end of this phase.

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If it's helpful to you, these slides are available and the cities have your say.

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Page and you're also gonna note that we're in Webinar mode.

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And I think I mentioned this right at the start. So you're going to be muted as an attendee.

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Your cameras are off, but that certainly doesn't mean that we want to hear from you.

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It's just really to manage the numbers tonight. And so we'd love for you to reach out.

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You can use the chat box if you want to connect with any of us panelists or if you need technical support, or if you want to send us a chat box, if you want to connect with any of us panelists, or if you need technical support, or if you want to send us and

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of course, if you want to share questions and answers, we have a question and answer box, and so that you should see a little a little figure at the bottom there, that says, and so there you can use the button that says you can type, in your questions, and we'll have a

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moderated session at the end, and of course you're also welcome to turn on close captioning of subtitles are helpful to you.

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Great. So that was our logistics. Let's go to the Y.

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We want to start the session with the Y. So why have you joined us?

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Why is the city putting on this session? Why is this going to be recorded and put onto the city's website?

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Well, really, tonight is about 3 reasons the why or if there's 3 things, one is to inform you or to share information about Guelph's current private tree protection bylaw to share with you a little bit more about the process the timelines what's happening when and of course to share with you some of the

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research that's been completed. So Margot and her team have been doing some background research.

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And we're going to be sharing some of those highlights with you that are informing the next stages of the process.

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And of course this is all about hearing from the community. This is about sharing your perspectives.

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And so the city has an open survey, and I know that Margo and to me are gonna be talking about that, and we'll direct you there, and we would encourage you to share your perspectives.

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There, and finally, we are going to have a moderated session at the end, and we'll answer your questions about the bylaw.

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And the update process. And just a reminder that Margaret will say this. And so to me.

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But we're in a listening phase. And so we're really, really interested to hearing what you have to say, in your preliminary thoughts.

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So the next slide is an agenda, and I think we've gone through most of this, so I won't spend more than 10 s on it.

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We finished our welcome and introductions. Both Margo and tomorrow are, gonna give us a presentation.

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Set us up in terms of those objectives in terms of what this is about, what we've learned and what the plan is going forward and then we'd love to hear from you and hear your questions, and I promise it will wrap up before 80' clock so with that i'd not see any questions coming through the chat

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so with that I'd love to pass it to Maya, who as she mentioned, is the project, lead?

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She's gonna provide us with an overview and kind of situate.

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This webinar in the overall process. It's over to you.

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Great thanks, Amanda. Next slide, please.

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So before we move forward, we're going to have a land acknowledgement as we gather, we reminded that Guelph, is situated on treaty land that is steep and rich, indigenous history, and home to many first nations inuit and metis people today the city has a

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responsibility for the stewardship on the land of the land on which we live. In work today we ignore the Mississaugas of the credit first nation of the Initinabek peoples on whose traditional territory we are meeting next Slide please.

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Right, so the timeline for the project runs right through until late 2024.

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Right now we're in the first phase of engagement which is the third task in the project.

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Out of 6. The original project kicked off early early in October of last year.

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Then in later, we spent some time doing background review and analysis, collecting information internally, and now we've moved on to the first phase of engagement, and as Amanda said, we are in a listening phase, and then Margo will talk a little bit more about

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the the next the next time next slide, please.

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So since 2,010 there's been a lot that's changed from the original update.

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One thing is, there's been increased intensification as the city grows.

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There's more concern about climate change specifically with adapting to climate change.

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We're also reflecting planning updates. Since 2,010, such as the official plan policies for the natural heritage system and the tree canopy cover develop guidelines for tree protection and compensation through the tree technical manual and we've designated our first heritage

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Conservation district, which includes regulation for trees, and lastly, the city's Urban Forest Management Plan recommends the Update and review of the private treaty next slide. Please.

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Thank you. Tammya. Okay, so I'm gonna talk a little bit about what this bylaw is about.

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Why does this city have a tree by law? What's the value or use of a a treatment by law?

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City of Guelph, like many communities, value the numerous contributions that trees make both to the health of the community and to supporting sustainable growth and a private tree.

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Bylaw is one of the tools that the city has at its disposal to protect and enhance the tree.

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Canada cover. It does this in a variety of ways, including providing opportunities to educate people about trees.

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A bylaw is potentially a tool to determer or prevent unnecessary tree removals.

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It's also a tool that can be used to ensure that tree removals are done properly.

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So in accordance with the applicable rules and regulations, it can be used to facilitate tracking of tree removals and replacements, so monitoring.

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And then, finally, it's a really good tool to help ensure that there's a legal basis for getting treat replacement.

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So we're trees are approved for removal, that trees are either required to be replaced.

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Replanted on site, or where there is no place for that, that there is financial compensation that can be provided to the city so that they can plant trees elsewhere.

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Next slide, please, Molly.

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So in terms of the scope of the current bylaw, it protects trees that are at least 10 cm diameter on lots that are privately owned, but only lots that are greater than point 2 hectares and over the course of the engagement we've had a number of

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questions of you know what exactly is point 2 hectares.

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So we've created this little picture here that gives you a sense what we've been telling people is it's about the size of a hockey rink.

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And so those of you familiar with this part of wealth. This is expedition arena that you see in the grain you can see that orange box which is point 2 hectares, is about the size of that arena, and so that gives you a sense.

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Of the size of lots that are regulated. Next slides. Face Molly.

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So as Maya mentioned, City's bylaw was first passed in 1986, and was last updated in 2010, and this Viola really focuses on regulating true removals on relatively large lots.

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So currently, there are about 37,000 private lots across the city of Guelph.

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Many of them are residential, but some of them are other land uses, commercial, industrial, and the private tree protection bylaw currently regulates about 2,000 of them, but because these are the larger lots it actually regulates a relatively large proportion of the tree canopy

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covers. So about half of the current campus cover, we will be circling back to a bit more analysis about what's regulated and what's not on another slide. Next one plays Molly.

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So in terms of how the current bylaw works. Basically, what it means is, if you are doing works that might injure or require the removal of trees that are regulated, and you have a lot that's at least point 2 hectares in size that you require permit to do that

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work, and to remove those trees. So there are some exemptions, and there is a long list in the Bible. I'm not going to go through them all here today.

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We can certainly discuss them in the if people are interested.

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But examples include removal of trees within tree nurseries, for example, does not require permit.

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Cemeteries also currently do not require a permit removed.

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Trees, and, for example, if a tree is certified as being high risk or being dead, also, no permit is required for the removal of that tree.

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Right now. The fees are $122 per permit irrespective of the number of trees being injured or removed.

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There are also costs associated obviously with high retrie care, professional, which is going to be variable, depending on what's involved.

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And then the third component to the costing is if trees removed can't be fully replaced. On-site.

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The city requires payment. Currently about $500 per tree.

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So that it can plant trees elsewhere. In the next slide.

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Please, Molly.

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So as part of this project we've done a background review and research both in the city in terms of the other applicable strategies and platforms and bylaws, as well as other comparator municipalities, and so we've learned a number of things.

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Through this research. So some facts about trees in the city of Guelph that you may or may not know the city's current tree canopy cover is 23%, as you can see in this map here.

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It's quite variable. The dark green areas are where the canopies at least 50% are greater.

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Those are a lot of the natural areas. Some of the lands that are owned by the Grand River Conservation authority, and then some of the areas are less than 10%.

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So it's again quite variable. The yellow bits of the map are areas where there's mature canopy cover.

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So trees that are 20 meters in height, or greater.

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So council recently reaffirmed its commitment to working towards a canopy cover target of 40% as is in the facial plan by the year 2070 name.

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And one aspect of this analysis. That's quite relevant for this particular project is that more than half of the canopy cover in the city is on private land, so private land owners really do have an important role to play in terms of contributing to sustaining and enhancing the cities canopy

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cover next slide. So another relevant fact about trees and wealth is the size of trees, so as part of the urban forest study that was completed in 2019, there was an analysis done of tree sizes overall across city of gluff and perhaps surprisingly most of the trees in the city are

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relatively small or young. So over 70% of the trees are less than 15 cm diameter, or approximately and over 90% of the trees were found to be 30 cm diameter or less excellent.

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So we also did some additional analysis as part of this project in terms of what the current bylaw regulates.

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So there's 2 different circles that you see here on the left hand side.

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It's percentage of lens and Guelph that are covered under the tree by law or not covered.

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And on the right hand side it's canopy cover.

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So I'm gonna spend a few minutes on the slide.

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There's a lot of numbers and material here to digest, and we can come back to it if anyone's interested.

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So the blue parts of the circle indicate what is regulated under the current.

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Bylaw. So right now 39% of the lands and Guelph and 32%, so little more than third of the city's canopy cover is regulated and requires a permit in addition to that, there are some lands that are still regulated under the bylaw

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but a permit is not required, and so an example of that is the Grand River Conservation authority.

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Lance, who operate and manage the trees on their lands, basically in accordance with principles that are aligned with the tree bylaw.

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And so they are not required to come forward to the city and request a permit every time they want to say we remove a hazard tree, or that type of activity, or manage in accordance with good forestry practices.

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So in terms of what's unregulated. Then that's the gray parts of the circles so currently in the city of Gloucester, 1% of the privately owned lands are unregulated under the bylaw and that corresponds to just under 20% so 90% of the tree

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canopy cover is unregulated, and what's remaining is about a third 34% of the lens in the city and 31% of the canopy cover.

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And those are the lands in the city that are primarily in public ownership.

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And so the private tree. Biolet is not apply to them.

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Those are primarily city owned lands. And again, the city has a number of polls and practices that it adheres to.

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But it doesn't. The bylaw itself cannot be applied to the city for managing its own trees.

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And yeah, so I think I'm gonna leave it at that.

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And again we can get into that in more detail. If anyone is interested.

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Next slide, please, Molly.

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So one of the things that we like to emphasize as part of this process is that a private tree ball is just one tool, that's at the city's disposal to help support, sustain, enhance, maintain the canopy, cover that there are a whole range of tools and the private tree.

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By law works. With each of these, and so at the highest level, the strategic plan level the city identifies increasing camp tree canopy is one of the key areas for adapting to climate change and the official plan includes a range of policies.

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Both natural heritage policies and policies that apply to the tree canopy cover that also support the maintenance, protection, replacement of trees across the city.

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There's also the Brooklyn and College Hill Heritage Conservation district.

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So this is for a portion of the city around the university area, and in these lands there is a special regulation related to trees trees that are at least 20 cm diameter or greater, that are located in front side yards and considered to have cultural heritage value currently require a permit

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through the Heritage Committee if they are to be injured or removed.

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There's also citywide plants that guide and help prioritize activities related to the urban forest.

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So there's the Urban Forest Management plan, which is a 20 year plan for the city.

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The related urban forest study which collected data about the canopy cover and most recently the urban forest management implementation update.

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And so all of these documents together help prioritize activities related to again tree planting, tree protection, etc.

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And then, finally, we have the tree technical manual. This one is also very relevant for the private tree.

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Bylaw. It includes specifications for how to protect trees as well as how to plant trees, and it also includes guidance for compensation.

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Next slide, please.

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So as part of this work. We also looked at 30 other municipalities that are considered comparators for Guelph.

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And we looked at what they're doing with respect to tree bylaws.

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So certainly there's a lot of variability out there in Ontario. No.

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2 tree bylaws are alike, and each one is tailored to the local municipal context.

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Depending on the biophysical contexts, and a variety of other considerations and factors.

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But in general we can say there's 3 types of tree bylaws.

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So the first one is what are generally called private woodland.

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Bylaws. These regulate trees, found within woodlands, and 27 of the 30 municipalities.

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Comparators for Guelph have what are called what private woodland Bylaws.

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The next basket of tree ballot types is what we call public tree Bylaws.

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So these are bylaws that not surprise regulate trees on public land, city lands, and 25 of the 30 comparative municipalities have these types of bylaws, and then, last, but not least, we have the private individual tree bylaws.

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So about 2 thirds. So 19 of the 30 municipalities considered, comparators have these types of Bi-laws, though the city of Guelph does not actually have a separate private woodland, bll, but the current private individual tree bylaw does cover trees, within woodlands, so if you

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have a lot that's regulated all trees that are 10 cm in diameter, whether they're in a woodland or outside of woodland, are regulated on those lands in terms of a public tree.

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Bylaw. This is something that's identified in the urban forest management plan it is on the city's to-do list, and we'll be probably a priority once this process is completed, next slide, please.

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So in terms of individual private tree, biolaws. There is a lot of variability out there, and this slide provides some examples of some of the range of different scopes of private tree bylaws among the comparators.

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So the first sort of basket is our bylaws that regulate all trees, irrespective of their diameter or size, on specified private lands.

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So examples of this are Ajax and widy, and they have bylaws that regulate all trees, but focus them on specified, mapped or identified areas, and primarily environmental and open space limits.

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The next category here is municipalities that regulate all trees above a specified diameter on specified private lands.

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So that's like the city of Guelph. So it regulates all trays of 10 cm diameter, but on lots above a certain size.

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Kitchener similarly does that as well. In Pickering also regulates smaller trees, so trees at least 2.5 cm diameter, but only does so in mapped tree protection areas.

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And we have the third kind of type of private individual tree bylaws, and those are bylaws that regulate all trees above a specified diameter on all private lands.

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So you can see there's quite a number of municipalities that have these kinds of bylaws, and there are a range of diameter thresholds.

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So Kingston, Mississauga, Oakville, regulate trees that are at least 15 cm diameter.

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There's a whole bunch that regulate trees that's 20 cm diameter.

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So Burlington, Cambridge, Markham, Richmond, Hill, and Vaughan, and then there's some that regulate trees that are a little bit larger.

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So at least 30 cm diameter, like Brampton and Toronto, is another example.

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And then there's still other municipalities that kind of do a combination of things.

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So London's an example of municipality.

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That regulates trees of at least 50 cm, diameter on all private lots, and then also regulates trees that are smaller.

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So at least 10 cm diameter. But in specified mapped tree protection areas, Ottawa also has kind of what I would call like a two-tiered bylaw.

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So they regulate trees of at least 30, cm diameter in their inner urban area, and then, in their suburban area, where the development pressures are a little bit less.

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They regulate trees of at least 50 cm diameter.

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Next slide, please, Molly.

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So, as you can see in terms of best practices. There isn't really a single type of bylaw that's a best practice, but in general it is a best practice to have private private tree bylaws as part of the compliment of tools, particularly in urban and urbanizing areas.

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other information from research and talking to other municipal foresters who have implemented bylaws over the years is that bylaws, private tree ballas in particular, are most effective.

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Whether implemented with 3 things. So those 3 things are, whether implemented with other complementary planning tools, whether implemented with ongoing education and communication about the scope of the bylaw, how it works, and whether implemented with adequate resourcing to administer and enforce

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that bylaw next slide, please, Molly. So what is the plan for updating the bylaws?

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Part of this project. Next slide, please. So, coming back to this timeline here has to be mentioned, we've initiated the project.

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We've done backward review and analysis as part of task. 2.

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And now we're completing a wrapping up face.

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What engagement? Task? 3. Next? Thing that we're going to do is we're going to be pulling together all the input that we've heard from the community through the survey and from focus groups.

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And the various information sessions, and we're going to be rolling that into a what we heard report, and that will be considered along with the review and analysis.

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And input from staff to develop options and draft directions for how the bylaw should be updated.

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That report will be going again. The city staff will be going to council, and then we'll be bringing it back to the community to consider the options and provide us with feedback.

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Once we've completed task 4 B. So the phase 2 of the engagement will be again pulling together the feedback.

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We've heard, considering that in relation to the other findings in the study, and we will be developing a draft updated bylaw and report.

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And ultimately that will be presented to council towards the end of 2024.

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Next slide, please.

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Okay. So as I mentioned the next immediate step will be taking everything we've heard, and summarizing it into what we heard report, which will be available on the project website and shared with the community and with council, we'll be looking then to develop options for updated the bylaw and these

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options will consider the findings of research and analysis. They're going to be considering the local context and issues, trying to make sure that you know these options are appropriate for Guelph.

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And we'll also be considering the feedback gathered in phase.

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One that is part of the phase 2 engagement. We're going to seek feedback on those options circling back.

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We will get. Gather another what we heard report, and then we'll be confirming the preferred option and developing an updated bylaw to be presented to council next slide. Please.

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So at this stage we've completed the bulk of our engagement.

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The survey was first opened, I believe. March sixth, and is going to be closing on April fourteenth.

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So if you haven't completed the survey, if you have neighbors, or colleagues who might be interested, please let them know.

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This is the last week that they can complete the service, and we've completed a host of again.

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As I mentioned information, sessions, pop up groups, there was a town hall, etc.

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And we're hoping to hear more from you this evening.

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If you have any questions or comments. But really our primary tool is the survey, and I'm going to pass it back to Amid.

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Thanks. Margot, you made it through without needing a kleenex break.

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That was great. That was super. Thank you. Well, I was gonna recap this for everybody. I was.

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Gonna say, well, Margaret, what's the date? What's the cutoff?

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So it sounds like April fourteenth, is the cutoff for the survey.

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So just to recap, and the survey really is a primary tool that the city is receiving.

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Commentary at this point. Pretty much any aspect of the bylaw. Is that right?

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Yes, so there's a number of survey questions in there and then.

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Yeah.

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There's some open-ended as well, so just to provide general comments, and it's about, I believe, 10 questions so pretty short.

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And I think we have close to 200 responses.

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So far, something in that order. Why, I haven't had an update today.

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But we were getting close to that point.

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Super, I know you're smiling because you're looking forward to digging into those responses.

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So just to recap that the survey is really an opportunity for the community.

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A malia, said in the chat, really to share with friends, and family and colleagues, and really to bring your ideas forward.

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What your experience has been with the last few years, right to me.

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I said that the bylaw was, I think, glass of it in 2010, so you know that's 12 or 13 years.

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We've had a pandemic in there so the city's absolutely open to hearing what you think about it.

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What your experiences are with it. Maybe. What you think are some possibilities for the future.

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So that was my plug for the survey