City of Hamilton Tree Protection Guidelines - City Wide

Published by City of Hamilton Planning and Economic Development Department under Tree Protection Guidelines

Alias: Tree Protection Guidelines
Submit to: Director of Planning
Applies to: designer
Work types: subdivision · site plan · consent · grading

The City of Hamilton's tree protection guidelines for privately owned land, written by the Community Planning and Design Section for landowners and developers taking a proposal through Planning Act approvals or a Niagara Escarpment Plan permit. Four steps run from a general vegetation inventory, through a tree protection plan with its tagged tree inventory chart, map and analysis, to implementation — hoarding, a verification of tree protection letter, a post-grading maintenance report and security deposits — and finally a landscape plan with one for one compensation. A glossary, native and invasive species lists close it.

What it covers

1.0 Introduction
2.0 Tree Protection Guidelines
2.1 General Approach
2.2 Process
2.2.1 Step 1: General Vegetation Inventory
2.2.2 Step 2: Tree Protection Plan
2.2.3 Step 3: Implementation of Tree Protection Plan
2.2.4 Step 4: Landscape Plan
3.0 Summary of the Approval Process
4.0 Conclusion
5.0 Glossary of Terms
6.0 References
Appendix 1: Map of Hamilton's Urban Boundary
Appendix 2: Sample Tree Inventory Chart
Appendix 3: Sample Tree Protection Plan Map
Appendix 4: List of Native Tree Species
Appendix 5: List of Invasive Tree Species
Figure 1: Measurement of Tree Protection Zone

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Publisher: City of Hamilton Planning and Economic Development Department
Category: Study requirements · tree
Published under: Tree Protection Guidelines — the municipality's own heading
Instruments: Planning Act · Niagara Escarpment Plan
Signatories: certified arborist · registered professional forester · landscape architect
Required for: Planning Act and Niagara Escarpment Plan permit applications involving tree cover
Document date: October 2010
Building types: any
Publisher note: Prepared by the Community Planning and Design Section, Planning Division.
Tags: guidelinestreetree-protectiondevelopment-applicationlandscape-plan
File: the document at Hamilton
Found on: hamilton.ca/build-invest-grow/planning-development/plannin…