The City of Burnaby is going to have to remove more heritage cherry trees in the Heights area.
A city spokesman told the NOW that a second group of cherry trees will need to be removed as part of the Boundary Road Combined Sewer Separation and Water Main Replacement project.
This is the same project that forced the city to remove multiple cherry trees for last year due to the narrow corridor.
For this stage, six boulevard trees on Boundary Road between Oxford Street and Hastings Street will be removed and replaced.This project will involve replacing sidewalk, boulevard and trees along Boundary Road.
“This particular corridor is very narrow with many existing utilities, including two large Metro Vancouver water mains,” said a city statement. “To do the water line replacement and sewer separation project, we had no alternatives to shift the alignment.”
The trees will be removed later this month or early March – before nesting season.
The six cherry trees will be replaced with 12 cherry trees, in accordance with the city’s tree bylaw. They will be planted as close to the original trees as possible.
Letters have been sent to houses in the Boundary Road neighbourhood to alert them of the upcoming work, and hosted an open house at Confederation Seniors Centre in November 2019 to share information about the project and the tree removal plans.
Last weekend, three of the newly planted cherry trees were cut down by vandals.
