{"id":148572,"date":"2023-04-14T16:48:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T20:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=148572"},"modified":"2023-04-14T16:48:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T20:48:56","slug":"council-approves-draft-on-new-lawn-naturalization-by-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/council-approves-draft-on-new-lawn-naturalization-by-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Council approves draft on new lawn naturalization by-law"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lawn naturalization was on the agenda at\u00a0Thursday\u2019s Committee of the Whole meeting.<\/p>\n

County councillors approved a draft grass and weeds by-law<\/a> designed to support and regulate those who wish to grow vegetation on their property, besides grass species, for the sake of promoting biodiversity.<\/p>\n

The motivation for the by-law follows from the example of other municipalities adopting similar lawn naturalization regimes, as well as case law recognizing Charter<\/em> freedom of expression rights as extending to individual privately owned landscapes, according to the related staff report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So far, the county\u2019s draft by-law will include prohibitions on noxious weeds as set out in the provincial Noxious Weeds Act<\/em>, prohibitions on other local invasive species, such as Glossy buckthorn and Himalayan balsam, and a 20-centimetre height restriction on turfgrass and other \u201cweeds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Council voted to include amendments to the draft by including staff instructions to explore the prohibition of additional invasive species in yards, and the extension of the by-law to public lands after the 2024 municipal budgeting process.<\/p>\n

No-Mow May is a voluntary initiative slated to begin this May that will help nesting species-at-risk and pollinators thrive.<\/p>\n

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A lawn naturalization was on the agenda at\u00a0Thursday\u2019s Committee of the Whole meeting. County councillors approved a draft grass and weeds by-law designed to support and regulate those who wish to grow vegetation on their property, besides grass species, for the sake of promoting biodiversity. The motivation for the by-law follows from the example of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":94846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222],"tags":[11494,14909,16817,25098,14499,14498,25096,14497,14241,16733,9236,25097],"radio":[13055],"origine":[267,269,13050],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148658,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148572\/revisions\/148658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148572"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=148572"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=148572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}