‘We’re asking homeowners to help us care for the young trees planted on streets and boulevards near their homes.’

The long-term goal of the city is to get Edmonton's tree canopy doubled from the current 10 per cent. It's proposing an investment plan that, over decades, will be worth hundreds of millions.

Homeowners who cut down healthy trees would be required to replace them with anywhere from one to three new ones under a proposed Peterborough bylaw.