B.C. Supreme Court ruled in favour of the property owners, but district is appealing the decision
Landowners in Central Saanich are fighting the municipality to be able to cut down protected trees on their property so they can expand farming.
The 16.1-acre plot was bought by the McHattie family in 1937 and has been used for farming ever since, most recently for cultivating barley.In 2020, the owners started clearing trees on their land that is outside the reserve, preparing for an expansion of grain and forage crops, according to the B.C. Supreme Court judgment.
The district told the owners to “cease all work on the non-ALR [portion of the lot] until further notice.” “The tree replacement order of the district in this case, which requires the planting of more than 700 trees, exemplifies the significant restrictive impact the tree protection bylaw can have on the permitted agricultural activity on the non-ALR portion of [the property]. As the land owners noted, one cannot farm in a forest,” Jackson wrote.
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