What is there to say? Some people really love trees.

The environment is warning us all that we must further measures to protect the future quality of human life by protecting private land trees. We need to actively reduce our urban heat/drought map with canopy cover and water retention gardens designed to capture excess rains for use to water the garden.

Planning and Housing needs to ensure developers are sensitive to the environment pre and post construction.

Taking time to discuss your future construction plans with the impacted neighbours, suggesting a post construction Neighbourhood Restoration Plan (NRP) with your BIA or Neighbourhood Association. Asking city to sweep the street, ensuring sewers are clear, tree planting, sodding or wood chipping, fence damage/repairs.

Be open to making adaptations like wood chips rather than grass, permeable instead of asphalt. Can community members find a way to work together that minimises injury to the environment while developing future homes?

Trees are housing and food for animals. Woodland animals and woodland plants are losing spaces to live in. How can you help restore a small part of this lost land on your private lands?

Trees drink a lot of water, we can direct the water from our downspouts to trees bases using weeping tile or rock gardens. There are many of examples of urban rain gardens being incorporated into city scapes in North America. These swells and ponds will help to hold water during extreme weather events and allow absorption into the land, rather than overwhelming the treatment facilities and flooding Lake Ontario with untreated raw sewage. Our E-coli counts are currently through the roof and the lake is unsafe to swim in during the droughts and heat waves. This problem has a simple solution, water absorption into land and gardens. 

We can find the solutions to the human housing crises, woodland animal housing crises, along with human and animal food shortages, and the environmental crises of heat/drought/floods by building sensitively and leaving some land for pollinator gardening, food and water harvesting even the water from the snow melt can be captured.

The minimum FSI is .30 within Toronto's PMTSA's.