Service Area · Lakeshore
Tree Removal in Lakeshore
Tree work across Lakeshore, from the streets off Northfield Drive and Lakeshore Boulevard to the lots backing onto Laurel Creek Conservation Area and the city trails.
Lakeshore was built out through the seventies and eighties on the north side of the city, and its lots were planted with the trees of that era: Colorado spruce in rows along the lot lines, silver maples and lindens on the front lawn, and ash everywhere. The spruce are now 20 metres and more, shallow-rooted and exposed to the west wind coming off the open land toward the conservation area, and they are the trees that go over whole in a summer storm. The ash are mostly dead. The neighbourhood's other distinguishing feature is its edges. A great many Lakeshore lots back onto Laurel Creek Conservation Area, the Laurel Trail or a city park, and a tree on that back boundary belongs to whoever owns the land its trunk stands on: the GRCA, the City or you. Trees on City land are reported to Parks Services and not cut, and we confirm ownership before anything on a rear line is touched. Properties nearest the creek and the reservoir can also sit inside the GRCA's regulated area, where grinding a stump out of a bank or running equipment across a slope above the water can need permission. There is no City permit for your own tree in Lakeshore, and the wide lots often allow a tree to be felled whole rather than dismantled.
Tree Removal services in Lakeshore
- Large Tree Removal
- Storm Damage & Emergency Work
- Stump Grinding
- Pruning & Crown Reduction
- Ash Tree (EAB) Removal
Frequently asked questions
Do the Waterloo rules apply in St. Jacobs?
St. Jacobs is in the Township of Woolwich, so the City of Waterloo's bylaws do not apply and the township's own requirements are confirmed for the address. The Region's Woodland Conservation By-law and the CFIA ash regulated area cover the whole region including Woolwich.
Is there a travel charge outside the city?
No. St. Jacobs and the properties around Waterloo are quoted on the same terms as the city. The tree and the access set the price, not the postal code.
My lot backs onto a park. Whose tree is it?
If the trunk is on the park side of the property line it is the City's, and it is reported to Parks Services rather than cut. If it straddles the line it is shared. On the site visit we can usually tell, and where it is not obvious we ask the City before anything is touched.
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