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Homeowners demand council
take action on falling timber

RESIDENTS OF a new subdivision in North Vancouver
District's Northlands area say they are living in fear for
their lives from falling trees every time there is a wind

storm and are threatening

fepal action against the

municipality if the situation is not rectified.

Trees in the Orkney Place and
Larkhall Crescent area have been
falling since August, with the most
recent incidents occurring in last
week’s heavy winds.

On Monday night several fami-
lies fom the area, which is north
of Seymour Parkway between
Emerson Way and = Strathaven
Drive, pleaded with council for
quick action in identifying and
removing trees judged to be dan-
gerous,

Larkhall resident Carol
Balderston said she wanted ‘‘all
isolated tree stands taken down
and replaced with vegetation suit-
able for a community neighbor-
hood.”’

She presented council with pic-
tures of blowdowns lying across
sidewalks, next to park benches
and eight feet (2.4 m) from house
windows.

Balderston, her voice shaking,
said it was a miracle that children
had not already been hurt.

Orkney Place resident Patricia
Kienzle has written to council
twice since a trec on district
property fell onto the roof of her
house in October.

She said that although the dam-
age was minimal, her three
children — aged seven, six and
four — were at home with her and
her husband when the tree fell.

‘*|. needless to say (the children)
were scared to death. It was one
of the most frightening experi-
ences I’ve ever had,’’ Kienzle
wrote in a Nov. 25 fax to the
district.

She requested ‘immediate ac-
tion'* from the district in remov-
ing ‘“‘the remaining trees on our
lot and adjacent area to ensure the
safety of life in our new neighbor-
hood.”’

Having received ‘‘not one
response either written: or verbal’’
by Dec. 13, Kienzle wrote again to
the district’s mayor aud council.

In the meantime, another wind
storm resulted in more blowdowns
and, according to a concerned

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NORTH VANCOUVER
DISTRICT COUNCIL
by Martin Millerchip

Kienzle, two more houses in the
neighborhood being hit by trees.

“If these trees are not removed
by the district immediately this
letter acts as notice 10 the district
that we shall hold the District of
North Vancouve: liable for all
damages personal or property,
adjacent properties or persons in-
cluding all costs for cleanup
resulting from the trees on our lot
and adjacent properties,’’. wrote
Kienzle.

Area resident Derick Sinclair is
also threatening legal action
against the district.

Sinclair has purchased 1828
Larkhall Cres., effective Dec. 29.

He said he was advised by both
his builder and district forestry
technician Ron Myers that before
construction started, the district
had identified a number of trees
on his property as ‘‘healthy and
stable.”

Under a policy instituted this
year, trees on district tots sold by
auction are to be retained
wherever possible.

As a condition of sale control-
led by covenant, the trees on
Sinclair’s lot had to remain on the
property.

According to Sinclair, one of
the trees then fell on his house
while the building was under con-
struction, and on Dec. 9 ‘‘another
seven trees came down.”

“To say | am concerned is an
understatement,” said Sinclair in a
letter to mayor Murray Dykeman.

Sinclair would tike the covenant
that requires him to preserve the
“remaining”? trees on his property
adjusted.

“Should these trees fall within
the first year of my owning the
property | will sue the District of

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