Langford councillor calls the loss of the tree on the site where two condominium towers are planned a sad day for the municipality
A large arbutus tree at the corner Dunford Avenue and Jacklin Road in Langford fell piece by piece on Wednesday morning.“I’m devastated, just in shock watching this,” said Kristen Awram, a Langford resident who gathered just over 1,700 signatures in an effort to save the 40-foot-tall tree.
Despite the timing of the removal — just days after the city passed a tree-protection bylaw — the cutting was legal and approved. An advertisement in the Goldstream Gazette this week, headlined “Press Release January 2023” but with no indication of who purchased it, says developing the land required the removal of several mature trees, most notably the arbutus on the Jacklin Road frontage.
The ad cites the benefits of housing hundreds of people on a site that previously had five small homes, saying housing is urgently needed. “The acres of raw forest that would have to be razed to provide housing if urban centres did not densify would be devastating.” His report noted that replacing the arbutus’s 201-square-metre canopy would require either 80 replacement trees at the time of planting or 13 replacement trees and 15 years of growth.
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