Service Area · Mary-Allen & Uptown
Tree Removal in Mary-Allen & Uptown
Tree work in the Mary-Allen neighbourhood and the older streets around Uptown Waterloo, between King Street, Union Street and Waterloo Park.
The streets around Uptown and through Mary-Allen are Waterloo's oldest residential blocks, laid out before the war on narrow lots with houses close together, and their trees are the city's oldest too: sugar and silver maples, red oaks and the occasional surviving elm that were planted a century ago and are now 25 metres tall over roofs, porches and the wires. There is no lane of lawn to fell anything into here. The work is climbing and rigging over the house, or a crane set up on the street lifting sections clear, with the service wire and Enova Power's primary lines part of nearly every plan. Preservation matters more here than anywhere else in the city, and most of what we do in these streets is deadwooding, weight reduction and cabling to keep trees that are irreplaceable; oaks are left unpruned from April to November. The boulevard trees along these streets are among the oldest City trees in Waterloo, and the City posts notice two weeks ahead when it removes one in the uptown area. They are reported to Parks Services, not cut. If Council adopts the heritage tree by-law proposed in the City's draft urban forest strategy, the century trees of Mary-Allen are exactly the kind it will cover, and we check the position at the time of any quote here.
Tree Removal services in Mary-Allen & Uptown
- 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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