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Why are they cutting down the trees on the property on the east side of 1st street across from Crocus.

destroying more Green Space for progress, sad.

Typical of our city. Told the value of wetlands and other areas, but when a certain developer snaps their finger out come the bulldozers. Snowshoed through there last weekend, lots of cattails and marsh grass= wetlands!  
Add in that I live down the sewer line. Since all the development south and west of Crocus Plains, my basement has flooded multiple times. The infrastructure can’t handle the volume of water, during storms which backs up into my neighbourhood. Last I checked the city did not dig up the sewers and put in larger lines.  
So tired of how things are done.

it it is someones private property, and they can decide what happens to the trees. Someone bought it from the previous owners and is now theirs.

That land is pretty run down, unkept. Not really watch you would call green space. It is private property.  
 
So before judging why don’t you wait to see what becomes of it. While I am wholly in support of green space, that area was totally unusable. Likely overrun with mice. But so is it the sole business of its current owners to do with it as they please.

It's private property getting developed. The trees are not the cities.  
 
Maybe the conversation should be how the developer has saved many of the logs and plans on milling them into something useful rather than burn them like the city plans to do across from Paul's hauling.

I am sure that much of where Brandon (including where you live) is situated was once lush green brush and vegetation as well as some wild life. Where do we stop progress? When do we cease to add housing stock to the City?  
 
If people are unhappy with seeing Brandon expanding its borders, then suggest putting a sign up at the entrances saying "no more homes being built here".  
 
Expansion unfortunately requires some outward growth, thus removal of vegetation. This will continue for as long as we demand to have detached homes with front and rear yards, basements and driveways.

...where are all these "tenants" coming from? We have grown some in the last years but not swiftly nor reliably. And thanks to our new immigrants who have really added to the diversity and run many different and interesting businesses.  
It does appear that when the accommodations are built they are occupied I don't know that with any authority but that is how they look ( mind ou places come with basic window covering etc now so it is herd to tell) ,hence my question. I just look at the basically empty Vic Common, and small strip malls with vacancies for a long amount of time, we are now going to have a large shopping center just down the road from a mall that can't keep it's spaces filled.  
People have to have jobs to buy/rent these newer places , I imagine they aren't "cheap", we also have classroom shortage so there are kids and where there are kids there are adults, where are they employed? I do think the classroom shortage is in part due to language dedicated schools which we didn't have before .I of course may be out to lunch on this and movers and shakers in this city might say there are a ton of business here. I was once told by our previous mayor when I asked the question " they wouldn't build them if they weren't selling"  
I guess until they don't  
I think it is going to be a sh*t show down the road.  
 
Edited by delpmb, 2023-03-20 16:20:38

Do we demand that? Or is that all that's being offered?

We've had a fairly steady pace of immigration in recent years. Lots from Africa (especially Nigeria), and lots from South Asia. They're coming with big families with lots of kids. We've also had an infkux of Ukranians and are expecting more Filipinos with the recent recruitment the province has done. I see lots in service jobs, as most have good English skills, and some are remote workers from the people I've met. But I otherwise am not sure what jobs are attracting them, just that they are *all* employed, at least the ones I've met. Just not always in their field, especially if they have a medical background. It seems really hard for them to get recertification here.  
 
The classroom population has basically exploded since 2005ish, when Maple Leaf started bringing over lots of people. We're supposedly one of the fastest-growing divisions in the province. French Immersion was busting at the seams and needed more room, and schools they shuffled around were supposedly underutilized. Access to French education might be protected by the Charter, IDK. So there's a duty to accommodate there. If the kids weren't in French Immersion, they'd be in an English program. Every single school is over-capacity at this point. We need more classrooms and faster. Plus the funding for the staff. Lots of newcomers have the parents knowing English, but often not the kids. This adds extra burden to the system.  
 
As for Vic Commons, IDK if it will ever get fully developed. It's convenient for those of us living out here, but unless it can attract an anchor tenant that will get people to drive out here, it's probably a losing proposition.

I’m all for expanding the city…but the city has to expand too! Our drainage systems need serious work before we bring in more users in my opinion

To be quite honest with you, the trend is now moving towards multi-family buildings, and the stats prove it. The number of single detached dwellings constructed in Brandon are now fewer than the number of residential dwelling units in newly constructed multi-family buildings. But the fact still remains that the majority of land earmarked for new development is for single detached dwellings, they are the biggest draw on City resources, and the people with the money want big houses and big yards.

I moved to Brandon from Saskatchewan in 2012 with my family and I now reside in one of those newly constructed areas that you speak of, just not in a house with a yard.  
 
Every town, city, province and country want their population to grow and increase, it's the whole reason that Economic Development exists as a department within the City. More people means more schools, more property taxes collected, more services provided, stronger economic opportunities, the list goes on and on.

We are just taking down some trees.