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Sin our private affairs

: Bear Editor:

I cannot help bur respond to the recent

Mafront-page story of the lady complaining
fae about her neighbors’ tree-cutting.

While the preservation of the environment
is obviously a worthy and Necessary goal,

disturbing,
Even more disturbing is the willingness of

Mlocal government to further tighten these

§ bylaws withour meaningful public input.
There is more at stake in these bylaws than
trees. The bylaws severely restrict what should
MM be one of our fundamental rights: the right to
do as we wish on our own property so long as

fag we do not injure our neighbor.

I say “should be” because it seems clear
that little in our laws or governance protects

an individual’s rights at all, while the infringe-

ment of those rights by government is con-

@ stant and insidious.

The passage of any law should involve a
g balancing act questioning the public good or

Be necessity, on the one hand, and rhe rights of
: individuals on the other.

MAILBOX POLICY

The question “what moral right do we
have to tell people what to do” seems to be
too rarely examined in practice.

Obviously the preservation of the environ-
ment is an important public good, and the

tion Of whether tree-cutting on private
land in fact “injures vour neighbor” must be
considered,

But while preserving trees for the sake of

preservation alone is a worthy goal, the envi-
ronment of the individual is also important, in
terms of access to sunlight, a usable yard, ete.,

especially on the North Shore where the abun-
dance of trees is sometimes overwhelming
(and certainly t threatened in any serious

s¢ bylaws were aimed at avoiding the
clear-cutting of lots by developers, | would be
in favor, but surely then the bylaws could be
narrowed to. suit this objective. And if the
point of the bvlaws is far more general, as it
appears to be, then | think they go much too
far.
Peter Botz
West Vancouver

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