Comments on: The limits of preserving heritage? The Great Harwood Tulip Tree https://vancouverpublicspace.ca/2010/06/10/the-limits-of-preserving-heritage-the-great-harwood-tulip-tree/ Mon, 28 Aug 2017 20:00:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: VPSN https://vancouverpublicspace.ca/2010/06/10/the-limits-of-preserving-heritage-the-great-harwood-tulip-tree/#comment-47 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:29:29 +0000 http://vancouverpublicspace.wordpress.com/?p=315#comment-47 Hi Nicole,

Good point on stepping back for the big picture. Part of the challenge with the present issue – and one of the points that we made in our letter to Council – was that the array of tools that was on offer was pretty slim, and boiled down to a question of “heritage bonus or no heritage bonus.”

That being said, the tree is currently located between two existing residences — with one site (not both) going through a redevelopment process. There’s plenty of reason to assume that affording protection would be useful and not squandered, beneficial to both the surrounding landscape and the people (and other critters) that inhabit it.

If you have a link to your friends story please feel free to post it here! The more ideas on the subject, the better the discussion.

– Andrew Pask

]]> By: ntomlinson https://vancouverpublicspace.ca/2010/06/10/the-limits-of-preserving-heritage-the-great-harwood-tulip-tree/#comment-46 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:34:54 +0000 http://vancouverpublicspace.wordpress.com/?p=315#comment-46 My friend did a story on this for the CBC – it seems to me this is a case where it might be worth stepping back and looking at the environment this tree is in.

Is it really ecological heritage preservation to sustain a tree that will likely soon be wedged between two residential developments?

Maybe we need to rethink our urban encroachment as a whole.

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