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Originally Posted by ponyboycurtis
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I would like to see planter bed trees get more love. Although that may represent some actual capital cost aside from making a divot in the ground. Even at our almost brand new Zibi along Chaudiere Pvt, those brand new trees dropping into the sidewalk are dead. You can see it on Google maps right now. Only 3 alive left of the 8. We need to get better at maintaining that type of stuff.
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We can have street trees or we can highly salted roads and sidewalks. Having both doesn't seem to work.
There's mitigation strategies such as curbing the tree wells or raised plants, but in the end trees need water, so if you keep the surface run off out of the tree pits by curbing, you need to irrigate. But if you let the surface run off in, you need a plan to massively reduce the salt contamination - and we all know how Ottawa fares in that regard.
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