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Development Application Guidelines: Tree Protection Plan (Private trees)

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This is the City of Hamilton’s document, as published on its website on 19 October 2026. The municipality may have changed it since: check the current version at the source. Legal notice

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Hamilton's Development Application Guidelines for a Tree Protection Plan (Private trees), showing how a proposed development may affect existing trees and the extent of preservation, injury or removal, in a February 20, 2026 edition and an October 2022 edition issued as Appendix "B38" to Report PED22112(d). It names a Certified Arborist, Registered Professional Forester or OALA Landscape Architect as preparer, covers tagging trees of 10 cm dbh or more, protection during construction, 1 for 1 compensation and cash-in-lieu, and lists tree by-laws from By-law 14-212 onward.

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