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Operational Requirements for Establishing a Natural Asset Inventory Program
A report from the Director of Engineering detailing the requirements and recommendations for starting a program to inventory natural assets.
February 26, 2026Director of EngineeringRecommended for information
6. Implementation Plan
Cost and Timeline Legend
- $: Staff time or <$5,000
- $$: $5,000 - $10,000
- $$$: $10,000 - $25,000
- $$$$: >$25,000
- AN: Annual/Ongoing
- OT: One-time
- PR: Periodic
- Immediate: 2026
- Short-Term: 2026 - 2030
- Mid-Term: 2030 - 2040
- Long-Term: Beyond 2040
Goal 1. Planning and design processes facilitate the growth of the urban forest.
Strategy 1.1. Ensure planting standards are supporting long-term tree growth.
| Action | Department Lead(s) | Monitoring Measure | Est. Cost (Freq.) | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action 1. Ensure trees entering the boulevard inventory are inspected to verify compliance with stock and establishment standards prior to their acceptance by the Town. | Engineering | M8. Tree condition rating | $ (AN) | Short-Term |
| Action 2. Update View Royal’s Subdivision and Development Servicing Bylaw and standard details to enhance tree planting conditions in right-of-ways, including minimum soil volume, irrigation, boulevard width and soil depth requirements. | Engineering, Development Services | $ - $$$ (OT) | Short-Term | |
| Action 3. Review tender specifications and warranty inspection standards for contracted tree planting. | Engineering | $ (OT) | Immediate | |
| Action 4. Review the Town’s details for boulevards, tree planting, tree protection, and tree pits. Ensure design is aligned with best practices, and would support full tree life-cycles. | Engineering | M3. Average DBH of boulevard trees at time of removal | $ (OT) | Short-Term |
| Action 5. Spatially define the areas across the Town where the use of native vegetation is to be prioritized given biodiversity preservation objectives within or adjacent to those areas (e.g. shoreline parks, park natural areas, and ESA buffers). | Engineering, Development Services | $ (OT) | Short-Term |
Strategy 1.2. Ensure land use planning is supporting the urban forest.
| Action | Department Lead(s) | Monitoring Measure | Est. Cost (Freq.) | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action 6. Adopt OCP policy supporting the urban forest and UFS that provides enhanced direction on the handling of View Royal’s urban forest within the community’s guide to growth. | Development Services | M6. Spatial heat disparity | $ (OT) | Short-Term |
| Action 7. Review View Royal’s Zoning Bylaw to ensure performance criteria, including surface parking, landscaped open space, setbacks, and lot coverage, are supporting consistent inclusion of trees on development sites. | Development Services | M6. Spatial heat disparity | $ (OT) | Short-Term |
Strategy 1.3. Ensure rates of tree planting are supporting net new outcomes.
| Action | Department Lead(s) | Monitoring Measure | Est. Cost (Freq.) | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action 8. Prepare five-year tree planting plans to direct short-term tree planting programming toward the Town maintaining the desired net new tree planting. | Engineering | $$$ (PR) | Mid-Term | |
| Action 9. Municipal tree planting targeting 50 - 100 trees per year between parks and boulevards and desired canopy cover pathways. | Engineering | M5. Net new public trees planted | $$ | Immediate |
| Action 10. Leverage restoration and afforestation to grow urban forest canopy within forested areas and in naturalization sites. | Engineering | M4. Urban core canopy cover | $ - $$$$ (AN) | Long-Term |
| Action 11. Establish an adopt-a-tree program where the Town will plant trees in underutilized boulevard or park space in exchange for resident-led care through establishment. | Engineering | M5. Net new public trees planted | $ - $$$ (AN) | Short-Term |
Strategy 1.4. Consider equity and community need through program decision-making.
| Action | Department Lead(s) | Monitoring Measure | Est. Cost (Freq.) | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action 12. Explore opportunities for improving urban forest access and education in areas with concentrations of vulnerable populations. | Engineering | M4. Urban core canopy cover | $ (AN) | Short-Term |
| Action 13. Ensure community engagement and outreach programming is broadly accessible to any interested members of the community. Explore opportunities for improving urban forest access and education in low tree equity areas. | Corporate Administration | $ (AN) | Immediate | |
| Action 14. Explore requiring dedicated tree corridors, boulevards clear of active transportation facilities or any other community infrastructure, along priority right-of-ways such as: (i) those located in Transit Oriented Development areas and along arterial/collector corridors, or (ii) areas of lower tree equity where there is a lower density of public trees. Identify these locations as a schedule in the OCP, prepare accompanying policy, and consistently require widening dedications within these areas. | Development Services, Engineering | $ (OT) | Mid-Term |
Goal 2. Program governance supports the Town in meeting its urban forest aspirations.
Strategy 2.1. Improve urban forest governance to achieve positive urban forest outcomes.
| Action | Department Lead(s) | Monitoring Measure | Est. Cost (Freq.) | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action 15. Prepare and adopt a Town Tree policy to formalize: green infrastructure within the Town’s broader asset management program, risk management procedures concerning urban forest assets, integrated pest management procedures, public tree protection, replacement, and compensation requirements, and tree protection and inspection requirements with respect to capital works. | Engineering | $$-$$$ (OT) | Mid-Term | |
| Action 16. Establish dedicated tree maintenance and planting budgets within parks. Establish initial budgets based on a life-cycle costing approach. | Engineering, Finance and Technology | M10. Program budget | $$$$ (AN) | Immediate |
| Action 17. Establish an interdepartmental Urban Forestry working group and meet biannually to review progress on implementation, and to review current challenges and opportunities impacting the Town’s urban forestry program. | Chaired by Engineering, full representation from Internal departments | M2. Interdepartmental working group meetings. | $ (AN) | Immediate |
Strategy 2.2. Prioritize program monitoring and reporting.
| Action | Department Lead(s) | Monitoring Measure | Est. Cost (Freq.) | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action 18. Undertake a review of the Urban Forest Strategy every five years. | Engineering | $-$$ (PR) | Mid-Term | |
| Action 19. Establish and maintain a GIS-based boulevard tree inventory featuring a technical design aligned with industry best practices and update the inventory in-step with a proactive maintenance regimen. | Engineering | M9. Inventory update cycle | $* (AN) * moderated by size of boulevard tree population. Presently, relatively small. |
Short-Term |
| Action 20. Produce a new urban tree canopy dataset, derived from current LiDAR and imagery datasets, on a five-year interval. | Engineering | M4. Urban core canopy cover | $$$ - $$$$* (PR) * potential cost efficiencies through aligning LiDAR acquisition with neighbouring municipalities/regional districts undertaking similar work. |
Mid-Term |
| Action 21. Produce a State of the Urban Forest report on a five-year interval to report on key program metrics and explore changes in the urban forest since prior reporting. | Engineering | $$$ (PR) | Mid-Term |
Strategy 2.3. Sustainably resource urban forest management and the implementation of this Strategy.
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| Action | Department Lead(s) | Monitoring Measure | Est. Cost (Freq.) | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action 22. Access external employment funding, such as Canada Summer Jobs wage subsidies, to employ youth over the summer and explore sustainable funding for student and internship positions that can contribute to a wide range of stewardship, tree inventory, and other projects. | Engineering, Finance and Technology | $ (PR) | Immediate | |
| Action 23. Establish a Town arborist or urban forester position within Parks to broadly enhance urban forest outcomes across all program areas and to support ongoing implementation of this Strategy. | Engineering, Finance and Technology | $$$$* (AN) * Investment here would bring capacity in-house that could reduce costs across multiple other implementation areas. |
Immediate | |
| Action 24. Transition the Town’s Invasive Species Volunteer Coordinator to a full-time equivalent and expand community outreach, education, and stewardship programming. | Engineering, Finance and Technology | $$$$ (AN) | Immediate | |
| Action 25. Access external funding opportunities to support tree planting, such as the Growing Canada’s Community Canopies (GCCC) initiative. | Engineering, Finance and Technology | $ (PR) | Immediate |
Goal 3. Urban forest maintenance regimen are aligned with industry best practices.
Strategy 3.1. Utilize best practices and industry benchmarks through the Town’s maintenance regimen.
| Action | Department Lead(s) | Monitoring Measure | Est. Cost (Freq.) | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action 26. Expand the Town’s watering program to water newly planted trees weekly in the growing season for a period of 3 to 5 years after planting. | Engineering | $ - $$ (AN) | Mid-Term | |
| Action 27. Transition to a seven-year cyclical pruning cycle for all inventoried boulevard trees. | Engineering | M11. Cyclical pruning cycle | $$$$ (AN) | Short-Term |
Strategy 3.2. Maintain forested areas to a reasonable standard of care.
| Action | Department Lead(s) | Monitoring Measure | Est. Cost (Freq.) | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action 28. Prepare forest management plans for flagship parks including Nursery Hill Park, Kelvin Grove/Wilfert Park, Eagle Creek, Robin Hill, Portage Park, to define long-term objectives for forest management and identify short-term management actions to achieve objectives. Ensure current assessments of forest health underpin forest management planning efforts. | Engineering | M12. Forest stand condition ratings | $$$ (PR) | Long-Term |
| Action 29. Prepare a biodiversity strategy to guide the management of View Royal’s natural ecosystems, including rare ecosystems and species (e.g. Garry oak ecosystems), habitat hubs and corridors, their protection, invasive species management, access and recreational usage. | Engineering, Development Services | $$$$ (OT) | Mid-Term |
Goal 4. View Royal protects its urban forest.
Strategy 4.1. Enhance regulatory tools and process are achieving the right balance between tree protection and community growth.
| Action | Department Lead(s) | Monitoring Measure | Est. Cost (Freq.) | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action 30. Establish a Wildfire Hazard Development Permit Area (DPA), including accompanying wildfire risk mapping as guided by View Royal’s Community Wildfire Resiliency Plan. | Development Services, Protective Services | $$ (OT) | Short-Term | |
| Action 31. Require development proposals that would involve modification of an existing forest edge, or the creation of new forest edge, to be supported by a wind firm assessment prepared by a qualified professional. | Development Services | $ - $$* (OT) * scoping of terms of reference. |
Short-Term | |
| Action 32. Review the Town’s Natural Watercourse and Shoreline Areas DPA, as well as the Sensitive Terrestrial Ecosystem DPA to ensure mapping and associated requirements are aligned with the Town’s broader vision for its urban forest management and natural systems. | Development Services | $$ - $$$$* (OT) * often, work would be completed as part of a larger biodiversity strategy. |
Short-Term | |
| Action 33. Develop a Terms of Reference for arborist reports and tree surveys, including specifying survey requirements and the conditions under which letters of assurance and/or arborist supervision will be imposed. | Development Services, Engineering | $ - $$* (OT) * scoping of terms of reference. |
Immediate | |
| Action 34. Formalize a process for bonusing (e.g., height, floor area) where trees, or native soils, are voluntarily protected through development, or where proposed site configuration will support greater tree planting than would be supported by meeting minimum requirements (e.g., landscaped area, expanded setbacks, lot coverage, etc.). Include policy supporting this bonusing in the Town’s OCP. | Development Services | $ (OT) | Short-Term | |
| Action 35. Update contract language to require hold-backs related to tree protection where private contractors are working around public trees during capital projects. | Engineering | $ (OT) | Short-Term | |
| Action 36. Review the Town’s Tree Protection Bylaw to ensure alignment with broader community objectives for canopy growth. | Engineering, Development Services | $ - $$$ (OT) | Short-Term | |
| Action 37. Explore the potential of a Landscaping Bylaw (s.527 of the LGA) toward improving consideration for the urban forest through development processes. | Development Services | $ - $$$ (OT) | Short-Term | |
| Action 38. Manage the diversity of public trees by limiting the continued planting of overrepresented species on public land. Aim for the Town’s tree inventory to include no more than 20% of any single genus and no more than 10% of any single species. | Engineering, Development Services | M13. Genus and species diversity | $ (AN) | Short-Term |
Strategy 4.2. Support the resilience of both View Royal as a community and its urban forest.
| Action | Department Lead(s) | Monitoring Measure | Est. Cost (Freq.) | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action 39. Consider sourcing climate-adapted native seed stock for use in the Town’s native ecosystems. | Engineering | $ (AN) | Mid-Term | |
| Action 40. Adjust terms of reference for landscape plan submissions for large developments to include planting stock selection that achieves a minimum diversity of 3-5 individual species well-suited to the site. | Development Services | $ (OT) | Short-Term | |
| Action 41. Support implementation of the actions contained to View Royal’s Community Wildfire Protection Plan. | Protective Services | $ - $$$$ (AN) | Short-Term | |
| Action 42. Adopt FireSmart principals in landscape management, programming, and treatments to build the resilience of municipal buildings and Town assets. | Engineering, Protective Services | $ - $$ (OT) | Short-Term |
Goal 5. Sustainable urban forest management is achieved through partnership and community investment.
Strategy 5.1. Build relationships with host Nations and Indigenous Peoples living in View Royal to integrate Indigenous perspectives with urban forest management.
| Action | Department Lead(s) | Monitoring Measure | Est. Cost (Freq.) | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action 43. Expand government-to-government relationships with Esquimalt and Songhees Nations to better understand how Indigenous values and interests might be reflected in urban forest management practices, where high priority forested stands exist within View Royal, and identify opportunities to integrate Traditional Knowledge and land management practices into forested areas management. | Office of the Mayor & CAO, Corporate Administration, Engineering | $ - $$$$ (AN) | Immediate |
Strategy 5.2. Build community knowledge of and participation in urban forest management.
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| Action | Department Lead(s) | Monitoring Measure | Est. Cost (Freq.) | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action 44. Ensure important urban forestry communications use a diversity of print and digital avenues to reach all segments of View Royal’s population. | Corporate Administration, Engineering | $ (AN) | Short-Term | |
| Action 45. Make urban forestry data, including tree canopy mapping and inventory datasets, publicly available. | Corporate Administration, Engineering | $ (AN) | Mid-Term | |
| Action 46. Prepare a biannual newsletter to communicate key urban forestry messages, updates, and progress on UFS implementation. | Corporate Administration, Engineering | $ (AN) | Short-Term | |
| Action 47. Continue to offer View Royal’s Resident Tree Planting Program and expand it if demand outpaces current program capacity. Add non-invasive non-native tree species to the planting list for areas of the town that are not connected to natural ecosystems. | Engineering | $$$ - $$$$ (AN) | Immediate | |
| Action 48. As demand justifies, further build on the successful partnerships and programming delivered through arrangements with the Greater Victoria Green Team (GVGT). | Engineering | $$ - $$$$ (AN) | Short-Term |
Strategy 5.3. Develop strategic partnerships to support the urban forest.
| Action | Department Lead(s) | Monitoring Measure | Est. Cost (Freq.) | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action 49. Work with utility providers to define preferred and minimum planting setbacks from infrastructure assets and to identify acceptable solutions (e.g., utility sleeves, root barriers, vertical setbacks) supported in meeting minimum setbacks to reduce undue harm to trees. | Engineering | $ (PR) | Short-Term | |
| Action 50. Explore partnership opportunities with the Greater Victoria School District (GVSD), including Shoreline Community Middle School, Eagle View Elementary School, and View Royal Elementary School to engage youth in educational programs that promote urban forest awareness and foster student interest in urban forestry. | Engineering, Corporate Administration | $ (AN) | Mid-Term | |
| Action 51. Actively participate in and support initiatives that utilize the Capital Regional District’s (CRD) network of urban forestry professionals, including municipal staff, nurseries, consultants, and academics. Focus on sharing knowledge and collaborating to address key challenges. | Engineering | $ (AN) | Short-Term | |
| Action 52. Explore partnering with Royal Roads University, the University of Victoria and other post-secondary institutions to support research and workforce development in View Royal’s urban forest. | Engineering | $ (AN) | Long-Term |
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