On today’s show: After receiving over 20 letters from concerned residents and hearing from seven people in council chambers on Tuesday night, Tantramar council has let a proposed vegetation by-law die on the vine.
Residents shared concerns about potential loss of habitat and biodiversity, as well as stormwater management, should the standards laid out in the proposed by-law be enforced.
“Lawn maintenance by-laws are notorious for preventing good people from making positive choices to have less intensively managed yards,” said resident Sean Blaney, “and these bylaws are prone to being misused in neighbour disputes that are not really related to vegetation.”
