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High densification of Oak Bay, as planned under the new OCP will:
Encourage greed developers to maximize their built over area by minimizing green spaces, cutting down trees, destroying entire birds and small wild lives ecosystems.
Generate an unprecedented level of demolition waste enough to make the municipality one of the highest source of pollutant waste in the region.
The current tree bylaw has loopholes, so the city is unable to properly enforce it which has allowed developers to:
Encourage greed developers to maximize their built over area by minimizing green spaces, cutting down trees, destroying entire birds and small wild lives ecosystems.
Generate an unprecedented level of demolition waste enough to make the municipality one of the highest source of pollutant waste in the region.
The current tree bylaw has loopholes, so the city is unable to properly enforce it which has allowed developers to:
- ... ignore the notification of neighbours when trees are to be destroyed
- ... incorporate the cost of the fines for destroying trees into the "cost of doing business"
- ... ignore environmental protection once zoning changes and development permits are issued.
- ... illegally build over and destroy public shorelines in order to maximize the size of waterfront houses.
