July 8, 1998
To:Toronto Community Council
From:Director of Development & Support - Toronto Parks and Recreation, City Hall
Office
Subject:Request for Removal of twenty-nine City-owned Trees - One Shaftesbury Avenue
(Ward 23 - Midtown)
Purpose:
An application has been received from Mr. John Quinn, Ferris & Quinn Associates,
Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, 11 Church Street, Suite 302, Toronto, Ontario,
M5E 1W1 , for City Council to consider removal of twenty-nine City owned trees.
Recommendation:
That tree removal be approved on the condition that:
- the applicant pay for the value of the trees, removal costs and replacement costs still to be
determined;
- the applicant plant fifteen new trees in turf on Shaftesbury Avenue and plant three trees in
sidewalk tree pits on the Shaftesbury Avenue City Street allowances upon completion of
the project in accordance with Planting Plan L2 prepared by Ferris & Quinn Associates
Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, date stamped July 3 , 1998 by Urban
Development Services.
Background:
This request for tree removal forms part of a Site Plan Approval application filed with
Urban Development Services for the purpose of facilitating construction of a new residential
housing development.
Comments:
Thirty-seven trees along Shaftesbury Avenue form a row of seven Poplar, nineteen
Manitoba maples and eleven Norway maples which have diameters ranging from 8 to 28
centimetres. These trees essentially form a hedge row and have likely grown from seeds as
they do not form a typicl street tree planting. The condition of these trees are: one tree is
dead; seven trees are in poor condition; twenty-one trees are in fair condition; and eight trees
are in good condition. The twenty-nine trees in fair and good condition are the subject of this
removal request.
Mr. Quinn reports that the 37 City owned trees are in direct conflict with the proposed
housing excavation and the trees cannot be protected during the construction of the new
residential housing.
The applicant proposes to plant fifteen new red oak trees in turf and plant three new red
oak trees in sidewalk tree pits along Shaftesbury Avenue as part of the landscape
improvements associated with this project. The planting of these new trees will enhance the
streetscape in this area and be a significant improvement over the existing conditions. I
therefore recommend approval for removal of these trees subject to conditions set out in this
report.
(Signed by SR) pm
Susan Richardson
Director, Development & Support
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Contact Name: Warren Quan
Email: wquan@city.toronto.on.ca
Tel: 416-392-1940
Fax: 416-392-6657
